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  1. Bug #784804
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 784804

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote : Re: Left clicking Nautilus launcher icon fails to open a Nautilus file explorer window when copying a file and all other Nautilus windows are closed

@John,

At UDS, we had decided that the Nautilus launcher icon will contain a quicklist item "Open a New Window" (see spec [1]) which will open a new file browser window in any case.

The solution given by you would bring inconsistency. When a file copy operation is under progress, a small copy dialog is always open. If someone moves focus to another window, and then wants to check out the progress again, then he/she would click the launcher icon, thinking that it'd bring the file copy dialog in the foreground (this is the current behavior). But if we implement a solution as per the bug description, clicking the launcher icon in such a case would open a new window, and hence there would be no easy way to go to the file copy progress dialog.

Hence I request you to re-consider a solution for this bug. I'd myself prefer the Quicklist solution as mentioned in the spec [1].

[1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-default-apps-unity-integration