Contributor Jeisson

In Ubuntu 8.04 a misbehaviour of Nautilus was introduced that mimicks the function of the shell command "cp" - unlike to any other file manager I am acquainted with Nautilus now destroys the creation date and time of a copied file and replaces it with the date and time of the moment it was being copied.

This leads to a lot of trouble to anyone who regularly copies files. Expecially users of digital cameras who are now forced to cumbersomly recover the lost information from the EXIF metadata inside the files, feel annoyed by this change.

I would appreciate the withdrawal of the "feature". Maybe it could be made optional? Possibly someone really needs this behaviour, but the vast majority of users probably would prefer the preservation of the creation date when copying a file.

In http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515777 the bug is described and there is a lengthy discussion about whether it is a bug or a feature.

A blog entry describes the surprise of an user: http://adventuresinswitching.blogspot.com/2008/05/file-modification-dates-chang ed-in.html

There is a source code patch at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=108968 - not really a help to everyone, I am afraid.

This is no duplicate of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5133/ as the bug has in fact nothing to do with FAT32 file systems.

(a)

When the user right clicks on an archive file like zip,rar,7z,etc, the options provided are :

1) Open with archive manager
2) Extract here

It would be nice to have the following menu option:
extract to

(b)

When opening an archive, file roller seems to read the entire archive in one go(or file roller is very slow in reading list of files in an archive). So, if the archive is really big, the user doesn't get to see the list of files & dir in it unless the entire archive hierarchy is fetched. I think WinRAR shows the list of stuff at the top level in the archive & reads the remaining archive hierarchy in background & the list shown in the UI is updated incrementally .

(c)

The File roller UI for creating archives by right clicking on folders is too simple and needs some more options like:

1) Delete files after archiving
2) options for selecting compression level
3) options for splitting archive across multiple files
4) password protection

Again Win RAR has a good UI for this

(d) There could be a context menu option for adding selected file(s)/folders(s) to an existing archive. Something like 'Add to archive'

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When you compile something from source it's often the same routine every time, this routine could be automated.

Often the source comes in tar balls, my suggestion is to make an installation standard based on tar balls, the developer just adds a list of dependencies to the tar ball, called dep.list or something, then he renames the file-ending from tar.gz to tar.install.

Then if the user clicks the tar.install file, an application asks him if he want automatic or terminal method. If he chooses automatic the app search through the software sources for the game(app,etc.) he wants to install. If the game is available through the software sources, the user will get the choice to either continue, or let the app install the game with apt.

If he wants to continue the app checks for dependencies and install them with apt, then runs ./configure, make sudo make install or sudo make checkinstall.

Right now we have two installer CDs. The normal one, and a separate alternative installer.

They both contain the same packages, the only difference is the installer.

I think we should merge the two CDs, so that you can run the alternative installer from the normal CD.