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[Khurshid Alam <khurshid.alam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I simply do not welcome this decision. Are we going back to 3.14? 3.14
is even worse. Lots of crashes, bugs, absence of more critical features
(like  absence of browse-network in the sidepane)  etc. Upstream won't
fix those. 3.14 is basically dead.

As per issues with 3.18,
1. We can cherry pick those patches for 3.18. Sometimes leaving a comment in bugzilla works and upstream does it for us.

2. True. Copy-speed is much slower now. But as per Carlos Soriano, any
improvements in this area will probably be back-ported for 3.18 as well.

3. Bug #1522316 provides patch which makes it identical to 3.14.
Upstream may introduce another zoom level which won't be too hard to
backport.

4. Background handling problems exist in 3.14 as well.

5. This is the only thing that needs rework.

And If we have to go back we can go back to 3.10 (if GTK requirement
satisfy) which trusty is using. At least it works much better than 3.14.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1541954

Title:
  Revert to the previous nautilus version

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The new nautilus is nice but needs some more work before being ready
  to replace the old one.

  Trying to document some of the reasons for the revert

  - Some features have been removed that users seems to care about (upstream is adding back some as options in 3.20)
  - Upstream identified some usability issues with the new file copy dialog which they are trying to address in 3.20
  - The icon view canvas need more work to accomodate other zoom levels
  - There are some annoying bugs that require work (symbols conflict between gtkfileselector and local copy), desktop background handling problems, ...)
  - It's not easy to add back a menubar and we would prefer to have one under Unity for the LTS

  The update is probably going to be worth doing next cycle but it was
  decided in the desktop channel to revert for this cycle

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