Bad placing of the "copy" string while drag-copying files with a dot in their name

(Please change the importance to a minor one, I don't seem to have the right for this :) )

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351290

As dicussed on IRC the patch would bring http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306341 back (.tar.gz creating .tar (copy).gz)

Then why not name it "copy X of foo", works with a.b.txt and foo.tar.gz

Do other OSes and desktops have that feature? What do they use? The "copy ...." variant has the issue to break ordering. I'm not sure the issue is annoying enough to try figure a complicated way to make it work

Windows prefixes a copy as 'Copy of $original_name' which as you say breaks ordering.

If nautilus used the first part of the file (split by '.') that has no white space that would give sensible results.

    my song feat. artist.tar.gz -> my song feat. artist (copy).tar.gz
    my_file.tar.gz -> my_file (copy).tar.gz

In this case ' artist' and 'my song feat' are not part of the file extension (both have whitespace), but 'tar' and 'gz' might be (no whitespace), so the sensible place to put it is before the 'tar' part.

(copy) should be placed:

  * before the first part of the file name with no whitespace
  * at the end of the first part of the file name if no parts contain whitespace

This bug still alive in newest versions of nautilus?

This bug has been fixed in Gnome 2.24.

Bug still exist in gnome 2.26/2.27.x

Affects me as well on Ubuntu 9.04, Gnome 2.26.1.
Perhaps .tar.xx can defined as an exception?
It's a papercut ;-).

Johannes

Same thing in 9.10/Gnome 2.28.4. Noted upstream as well.

I tried to reproduce this issue under Ubuntu Lucid and works as is expected (copy has the name 'your original file (copy).extension'), please could you check under latest release included in Lucid if this issue is still affecting you? Thanks!

@Kamus: I just tried it with a fully patched Lucid. I had a file called "screenshot.godaddy.png" on my desktop and by click-dragging to copy it, I ended up with "screenshot (copy).godaddy.png". Note the first dot in the file name. On the other hand, I'd rather have Nautilus behave this way than mess up .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 extensions.

@Bruno, ohh I see why works for me before, I tried this steps but with a file with structure "your file.png", you are right with "double" extension this behaviour is still occurring.

How about calling the files "Copy of: $filename".

I'm marking the patch as "needswork", breaking .tar.gz and similar extensions is not an option, "Copy of: ..." would break ordering and therefore does not seem to be a solution most would agree upon.