Contributor mondoud

How often have you wanted to do two things in one menu? You go deep into a nested menu, open a file or do something, then you have to re-navigate through the menu tree to click on the neighbouring icon.

I think left click should select and close menu; right click should select item and keep the menu open for further actions.

Other right-click in menu thoughts are in other ideas, e.g. deleting menu items with right click. Perhaps the overall solution is to offer a right-click menu on any menu item: options would be to select and close, select, delete, and maybe other context specific things.

For two partitions which do not support the same filenames standards, enable the system to automatically "correct" filenames when copying files from a partition to another.

Use case : Hugo (Ubuntu) wants to share some files with Arthur (other OS).
If Hugo tries to copy his file named "Albinoni : Adaggio.ogg" from his ext3 partition to a fat32-usb-key, the opperation will fail with no explanation due to the ":" in the name.

Files transferts have to be very easy and smooth in order to develop the use of Ubuntu. The system should modify the name automatically, replacing ":" by "-" or taking it away.

As for copying a file that already exists, a pop-up could raise to warn the user with this kind of message :
"The filename contains the special character ":" which is not allowed on this device. Do you want to replace it by "-", if not the file will not be copied "
[No] [Yes] [No for all] [Yes for all]

== From merge #8630 ==
Currently, the only characters that Ubuntu does not support in filenames and paths are slashes, while Windows has a considerable list (apostrophes, asterisks, etc.). So when browsing such files having special characters, it could be a problem.
^^^ This situation can be solved by implementing this idea.