I've noticed on the nautilus list recently, a lot of people submitting patches to fix various bugs. And on gnome-love and the Gnome Users' Board there are a lot of people asking for things to do in gnome. There seem to be a lot of people who love gnome and can program and want to give a little back, but really don't know gnome well enough to know where to start.
I personally have very limited coding skills but one thing I have is a pretty good knowledge of what's going on in gnome-land. There is a lot that needs doing. There are a lot of bugs, and nautilus has the most of them IIRC. The one problem: the bugzilla interface is almost completely useless if you don't already have an idea of what you are looking for. It can take weeks to get to know the nautilus bugzilla module. I'm hoping that by putting up this list of the bugs that I can save people some time and effort. The main focus of the 2.2 list below is on relatively easy to fix bugs. Individually they are not massively disruptive, but put together they amount to a lot of inconsistencies and broken behavior in nautilus. Crash bugs tend to get a lot of attention, but there are a lot of usability issues with nautilus that would be nice to get fixed.
Nautilus 2.2.x has recently been released but because there are still so many bugs that need to be fixed for both the 2.2 and 2.3 seriesies Nautilus is not going to be branched in CVS for quite a while. That makes this an ideal time to subit patches for these 2.2 bugs. The 2.3 bugs at the end of this page are not fixable until we branch for 2.3.
If you have a bug that you think should be added to the list, or if one of the bugs below has been resolved and should be removed from this list send me an e-mail or just cc me on the bug.
LAter,
MArk Finlay
The list view is REALLY messed up ATM IMHO. I cannot remember exactly what the Nautilus 1.x list view looked like, but to
me the current state of the list view feels like a regression, and makes it almost un-usable. That said, it has been greatly
improved recently, but there are still some very important issues left:
Anyone who has ever tried to do something with more than one file at once in nautilus will notice that it can behave quite
oddly. These two bugs cover the "Open" and "Open with" items. There is also a bug below in the 2.3 section dealing with the fact
that you cannot have a properties dialog for more than one file at once.
Some of these issues are not filed yet, and I haven't filed them cus I'm not fully sure about my opinions on them.