Re: Some bug reports and usability issues with GWorkspace.app

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2006-03-06 20:32:01 +0200 Nikolaus Waxweiler <madleser@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Enrico,
> I tested all of this with 0.8.1 again.

You shoud always use the version on svn in these situations; the things that I 
fix/modify daily are there.

> > > 1)
> Remains. Maybe some differences in filesystems or encoding libraries? Did the 
> mkdir'd folder show up as "?" or a box-character on the commandline?
> The GTK2 file-selector dialog told me that the filename had an invalid 
> encoding. Does GW check for something like this or would that be the task of 
> the Base/GUI library?

No, GWorkspace uses only library methods for paths handling.

> > > 2) I can't move files between different partitions (from /usr to /tmp, 
> > > etc.).
> > This must work.
> Well, it doesn't for me =/.. Does GW by any chance rely on this "mtab" file I 
> saw in an earlier version? That file doesn't exist on FreeBSD.

GWorkspace doesn't know anything about "partitions"; all the work is done in 
NSFileManager.
The "mtab" file was used only to individuate mount points to show them as disks on the 
desktop. Now this has changed; on linux GWorkspace uses getmntent(), on FreeBSD the output of 
"mount -p" and on darwin getmntinfo(). If the system is not detected or something goes 
wrong, an empty NSArray is returned.

> > > 3) I can't move items in the shelf from one window to another window's 
> > > shelf, except when I drop it on a folder or maybe app there. Same goes for 
> > > the tabbed shelf.
> > The current behaviour is: if you drag an item from a shelf (tabbed or not) 
> > to another one, the item will be added to the target shelf but will not be 
> > removed from the source.
> Dragging something *TO* the tabbed shelf always worked, it's the 
> window<->window and tabbed_shelf->window dragging that works only randomly.
> My problem was that I couldn't drop shelf icons on empty space in another 
> window's shelf (the mouse pointer changed to that "forbidden" sign) and if I 
> tried anyway, the icon was removed from the source shelf. I've just tested 
> this with 0.8.1, which now works more or less like you described. It's 
> just... it works with some files and not for others.. Some shelf icons I 
> can't drop on any other window's shelf, some I can drop only on a specific 
> one (for whatever reason) and some I can drop everywhere. Gah. I'm going to 
> investigate this later.

I was forgetting that there is a rule for the paths accepted by the viewer 
shelf!
A shelf accepts only paths that are subpaths of the path at which the viewer is rooted. This is 
needed because clicking on a shelf icon sets the selection in the viewer; a viewer rooted, for 
example, at "/usr/local" must not show "/home/enrico"!

> > > 4) I can't drop folders on application icons in the shelf. This is annoying 
> > > if an app expects a folder as an argument and I have to use a service 
> > > thingy as a workaround.
> > Just tested with a shelf icon representing Gorm: it works.

> *.gorm, *.app, etc. folders are treated as a single file, try it with any 
> other folder.

I've never considered this case; I'll see if I can modify this without breaking 
things...

> > > - I can't use file operations (delete, etc.) on the search results.
> > You can move, copy and delete items; the only limitation is that, if you 
> > want to act on multiple elements together, they must have the same parent 
> > directory. (you can order the view by "Parent").
> File operations are still grayed out no matter which or how many files I 
> select =(.

Some of them as "New Folder", "New File", "Duplicate"  are grayed out because 
they have no sense in that context. Well, I should activate the other ones; tomorrow I'll try this.
But you can anyway open, move, put in the recycler using the mouse.

> > > 6) Interface issues:
> > > - After deleting a file, the parent dir/"parent object in that 
> > > folder->folder->file view" is selected instead of the next file.
> > This is intentional; [...]
>
> Ok, thanks for clearing that up.
>
>
> > > - Command-S is mapped to something twice: View->Viewer 
> > > Behaviour->Spatial and Tools->Tabbed Shelf->Select Special Tab.
> > Ok. Fixed.
> Now "Hide" and "Show All" are both mapped to "h" :O.

Fixed.

> Oh, before I forget it: why is the "Print" menu entry between "Windows" and 
> "Tools"? It sort of looks out of place there.

Fixed.