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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> if we have to go back we can go back to 3.10 (if GTK requirement
satisfy) which trusty is using.

the feedback received and the error tracker don't confirm your
statement, the new versions until wily didn't have more noticable issues


> Why not using Nemo? As far as I know it has all the functionality of Nautilus 3.14 and then some.

that could be an option but not this cycle,  the LTS cycle is not the
right time to do such changes, we had no real experience nor feedback
with nemo and can't get that during an unstable cycle only


> What about updating Nautilus to 3.20 in Xenial?

that can't be done, it depends on gtk 3.20 which has some non trivial
refactoring to its css code which is going to require updatings other
things, it's too much work and disruption for a lts cycle

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

Title:
  Revert to the previous nautilus version

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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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