Bug 9525 – Unable to distinguish files in File Manager

Bug 9525 - Unable to distinguish files in File Manager


Summary:	Unable to distinguish files in File Manager

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 430

Product:	Desktop platform
Component:	File System UI
Version:	5.0/(3.2010.02-8)
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Marius Vollmer
QA Contact:	file-system-ui-bugs

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Blocks:
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Reported:	2010-03-13 20:33 UTC by daves
Modified:	2010-03-17 02:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description daves (reporter) 2010-03-13 20:33:57 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
(Settings > General > About product)
3.2010.02-8.002

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
(Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message
Connection Failed appears))
1. create files Test.htm and Test.html in the same directory.
2. In the file manager, browse to the directory.
3. Attempt to open Test.html


EXPECTED OUTCOME:
Able to distinguish bewteen the two files and select the correct file. (pretty
much the minimum definition of what the file manager must be able to do) If
unable to determine which file is which in the main file listing, viewing the
details should resolve the ambiguity.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
Unable to distinguish bewteen the two files and it requires a random guess. The
main file listing shows two files as Test. Viewing the file details shows both
files as type 'HTML Document', which is correct, but insufficient to
distinguish them.  

REPRODUCIBILITY:
Always

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:

OTHER COMMENTS:

Basically, this amounts to the fact file name base + MIME type is *not* a
unique file identifier. 


User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-GB; rv:1.9.2a1pre)
Gecko/20091127 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.5.6 RX-51 N900

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2010-03-14 03:21:33 UTC

Hi, what exactly is your proposal to fix this problem?
Also see bug 430 which is WONTFIX...

Comment 2 daves (reporter) 2010-03-14 05:15:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

Hi, 
I saw bug 430, but I don't think this is the same. My report says nothing about
file extensions being shown or edited. Instead, I simply presented a case where
the File Manager fails to distinguish bewteen two files as it required to do.  
Also, another topic in bug 430 discusses multiple appications associated with
the same mime type (comment #10). In this case there may only be a single
appliation to handle the mime type so the discussions referred to there aren't
relevant. There is no issue about which application to use, simply which file
to select in the first place. 

I really don't know the best solution, but a few possibilities are:
 1) show full filename under Details
 2) show extension after mime type in Details
 3) update Fremantle File Management UI spec to read:
    "File extensions are hidden. The exception to this is unknown file types
     *or when ambiguities may arise due to hidden extensions* ,
     which, if they have file extensions, will show them as an aide to
     identification. "
 4) Update filesystem to disallow files with same filebase and mimetype and
prevent ever reaching this state. 
 5) rename "File Manager" to "Random File Selector" :) 

Options 4 and 5 do not involve showing file extensions in the UI so this isn't
bug 430. Obviously they may not be the best or practical solutions, so file
extensions may be part of the *solution* for this bug. 

Cheers,

Comment 3 Venomrush 2010-03-17 01:09:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

> My report says nothing about
> file extensions being shown or edited. Instead, I simply presented a case where
> the File Manager fails to distinguish bewteen two files as it required to do.  

The file extensions not being shown = unable to distinguish the 2 files.

Closing as duplicate for the time being, feel free to reopen if you have a
strong case that it's different.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 430 ***

Comment 4 daves (reporter) 2010-03-17 02:36:50 UTC

Just to check my understanding of the situation: 
File Manager unable to manage files is WONTFIX.

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> 
> > My report says nothing about
> > file extensions being shown or edited. Instead, I simply presented a case where
> > the File Manager fails to distinguish bewteen two files as it required to do.  
> 
> The file extensions not being shown = unable to distinguish the 2 files.
> 
> Closing as duplicate for the time being, feel free to reopen if you have a
> strong case that it's different.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 430 ***
>