foberle
August 21st, 2016, 10:20 PM
My computer is set up with separate physical hard drives or partitions for many of the things I "share" across different operating systems, whether two versions of Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04) or virtual machines (Windows XP or Fedora 21). Examples are Documents, Genealogy research, Music, Development projects and so forth.
In Ubuntu, this is accommodated by either:
1) adding lines to the end of /etc/fstab such as "/mnt/Documents /home/Me/Documents auto bind 0 0" in order to make Ubuntu believe my partition is my Documents directory, or
2) mounting the separate partitions with fstab entries such as "UUID=5c898a6f-b829-4046-9ccd-ae3c6badc558 /mnt/Development ext4 nodev,nosuid,commit=10 0 0"
Nautilus now presents this information differently: In Ubuntu 14.04, the sidebar is configured something like this:
Places
____Recent
____Home
____Desktop
____et cetera, et cetera
Devices
____Unmounted, but attached, drives
____Computer
____et cetera, et cetera
Bookmarks
____Development
____Genealogy
____et cetera, et cetera
Network
____Connect to Server
Each section was clearly identified with a header/title, and while I would have liked it arranged differently, it at least appeared to have some reasonable taxonomy (organized by type of attached device – more about that in the next post).
Now, with Ubuntu 16.04, the equivalent Nautilus sidebar looks something like the following:
Recent
Home
Desktop
et cetera
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Unmounted, but attached, drives
Computer
… et cetera, et cetera
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Development
Genealogy
… et cetera, et cetera
- - thin divider line
Connect to Server
There are no headers/titles on the sections which now makes them appear to be a random collection of “places” to choose from. The taxonomy remains the same, but it isn’t at all apparent what it is.
I searched in vain for some configuration in the menus, config files, and so forth; I tried different themes to see if somehow they might be involved. Is there a way anyone knows of to get the section titles back? If not, does anyone know what the rationale was for this change? Is it a change from the Gnome folks, or did Canonical’s employees just feel like tinkering with it (it’s not like there aren’t a lot of actually broken things in Unity the developers could have worked on).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
In Ubuntu, this is accommodated by either:
1) adding lines to the end of /etc/fstab such as "/mnt/Documents /home/Me/Documents auto bind 0 0" in order to make Ubuntu believe my partition is my Documents directory, or
2) mounting the separate partitions with fstab entries such as "UUID=5c898a6f-b829-4046-9ccd-ae3c6badc558 /mnt/Development ext4 nodev,nosuid,commit=10 0 0"
Nautilus now presents this information differently: In Ubuntu 14.04, the sidebar is configured something like this:
Places
____Recent
____Home
____Desktop
____et cetera, et cetera
Devices
____Unmounted, but attached, drives
____Computer
____et cetera, et cetera
Bookmarks
____Development
____Genealogy
____et cetera, et cetera
Network
____Connect to Server
Each section was clearly identified with a header/title, and while I would have liked it arranged differently, it at least appeared to have some reasonable taxonomy (organized by type of attached device – more about that in the next post).
Now, with Ubuntu 16.04, the equivalent Nautilus sidebar looks something like the following:
Recent
Home
Desktop
et cetera
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Unmounted, but attached, drives
Computer
… et cetera, et cetera
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Development
Genealogy
… et cetera, et cetera
- - thin divider line
Connect to Server
There are no headers/titles on the sections which now makes them appear to be a random collection of “places” to choose from. The taxonomy remains the same, but it isn’t at all apparent what it is.
I searched in vain for some configuration in the menus, config files, and so forth; I tried different themes to see if somehow they might be involved. Is there a way anyone knows of to get the section titles back? If not, does anyone know what the rationale was for this change? Is it a change from the Gnome folks, or did Canonical’s employees just feel like tinkering with it (it’s not like there aren’t a lot of actually broken things in Unity the developers could have worked on).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.