"clear the list of locations" message

Bug #260785 reported by Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Low
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Sorry if I'm doing this in the wrong place;
I'm not sure where this should be done.

In a Nautilus window, click Go and Clear History.
This message is shown:

- Are you sure you want to clear the list of locations you have visited?
- If you clear the list of locations, they will be permanently deleted.

That's scary! It's just a list of locations, but the bad wording
makes it sound like the locations themselves will be
permanently deleted. Why not simplify this to a single
sentence saying:

- Are you sure you want to permanently clear the list of locations you have visited?

Or even leave out the "permanently".
Hell, it's obvious that if you clear a history, it will be lost.

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I'm using Nautilus 2.22.3 in Hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 24 00:03:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug

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Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro (silvioricardoc) wrote :
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

that's a pretty small detail and it should be send upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org, leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you send this request to bugzilla.gnome.org?

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Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro (silvioricardoc) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in nautilus:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.23.92-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.23.92-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Icon/compact view:
      - Allow to select range in addition to current selection,
        when pressing ctrl and shift at once [not yet doable in list view]
      - Fix layout timestamp storage when moving items around on desktop
    - List view:
      - Default to reverse sort order for date columns
    - Improve “Clear History” confirmation dialog (lp: #260785)
    - Use GdkAppLaunchContext instead of EelAppLaunchContext
    - Fix small leaks
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libeel requirement

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:34:42 +0200

Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
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