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

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

Hi Enrico,
thumbs up for the 0.8.0 release, Operation.app was an annoying little 
focus-stealer and crashed a lot for no apparent reason :o
I'll extend this list of bug reports and usability issues to empty my 
log of GWorkspace annoyances and bugs.

1) I'm in an UTF-8 locale. When GWorkspace encounters a file that is 
not a valid UTF-8 sequence, it displays an unnamed folder (type "mount 
point") which points to the parent dir or somehwere else ad infinitum. 
Trying to delete it caused Operation.app to crash due to infinite 
recursion and GW 0.8 just deleted the parent.
Try this while in a UTF-8 (or possibily any other multibyte) locale: 
'echo "\xf8" | xargs mkdir' and navigate to it in GW.

2) I can't move files between different partitions (from /usr to /tmp, 
etc.).

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.

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.

5) Regarding the Finder:
   - I can't use file operations (delete, etc.) on the search results.
   - Pressing Enter in the search mask while in some text field 
selects the whole field instead of 'pressing' "Search"

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. Using 
the mouse sucks when you're lazy =(.
   - Command-S is mapped to something twice: View->Viewer 
Behaviour->Spatial and Tools->Tabbed Shelf->Select Special Tab.
   - In list mode (Command-l), creating a new folder or file doesn't 
select it afterwards.
   - How about having the last selected file remembered when jumping 
around in the history?

I'm using FreeBSD 6.0, GWorkspace 0.8.0, gnustep-back-0.10.2,  
gnustep-base-1.11.2_1, gnustep-gui-0.10.2_2, gnustep-make-1.11.2_1