jani@saegusa:~$ nautilus –version
GNOME nautilus 3.4.0

This looks like a duplicate of bug 538432 [1] though it refers to a different memo, RFC1738.

* [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538432

I reported this on Launchpad [1] and was forwarded upstream.

Steps to reproduce:
1. In Nautilus, select Connect to Server
2. Enter ftp server address, select FTP (with login) as type
3. Enter credentials,
4. select ”Remember this password”
5. Connect.
6. Disconnect.
7. Do steps 1.-2. again with the same server.

What happens:
The User name and Password fields remain empty. You have to enter your credentials again if you want to connect.

What I expect to happen:
For the Password field (at the very least) be automatically filled when I enter the associated user name. Better yet, remember and suggest (as default) both the User name and Password used previously.

Alternatively, just use ~/.netrc if that’s available and has the credentials (see [2]).

* [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/963061
* [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963042

Steps to reproduce:
1. In Nautilus, select Connect to Server
2. Enter ftp server address, select FTP (with login) as type
3. Enter credentials,
4. select ”Remember this password”
5. Connect.
6. Disconnect.
7. Do steps 1.-2. again with the same server.

What happens:
The User name and Password fields remain empty. You have to enter your credentials again if you want to connect.

What I expect to happen:
For the Password field (at the very least) be automatically filled when I enter the associated user name. Better yet, remember and suggest (as default) both the User name and Password used previously.

Alternatively, just use ~/.netrc if that’s available and has the credentials (see Bug #963042).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set up a ~/.netrc with credentials for a given server
2. Verify that automatic login with those credentials works when using command-line ftp
3. In a Nautilus window, select Connect to Server, enter given server and choose FTP (with login) as type

What happens:
Nautilus prompts for login credentials (User name, Password) with nothing in the fields pre-filled.

What I expect to happen:
For the fields to be automatically filled with the credentials I’ve already specified in ~/.netrc.

Additional info:
Nautilus apparently has its own way of storing credentials (i.e. different from ~/.netrc). When it has credentials of its own for a server, those should obviously come first. But when it doesn’t, it should utilize ~/.netrc if possible.

Then I would rephrase this into a bug report as follows: currently, the toolbar navigational buttons (previous, next) are positioned to the right from the location bar. This is inconsistent with what most users probably expect, which is the way they are located in a web browser.

The three web browsers I currently have installed on this system position these elements as follows:

1. Epiphany 3.2.1: previous, next buttons above the left end of location bar.
2. Firefox 9.0: previous, next buttons to the left from location bar.
3. Chromium 15.0.874.121: previous, next buttons to the left from location bar.

From my personal anecdotal evidence, with this background, I say suddenly finding the navigational buttons from the right end of the location bar in one app is undly arduous. Thus this bug’s title should be: Move the navigation buttons to the left of the location bar.

(IIRC this was also how the buttons were back in Gnome 2. If there was some usability reasoning behind moving them to the right, I’d be interested in reading about it.)