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

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

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

> > 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?

> > 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.

> > 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.

> > 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 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 =(.

> > 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.

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