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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

If nothing else, I could expand the "Advanced Topics" chapter a bit, to
include adding PPA's and making changes like that. With the obvious
warnings that it's not a recommended or supported approach. And I could
use the adding a PPA to get this back as an example of how to do it.

On a slightly related note, I just thought about adding information
about changing desktops to the Advanced Topics section as well (adding
Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc). Although this might create a
hassle, since people won't know where to look for information specific
to those desktops.

Have a great day.:)
Patrick.

On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 16:59 +0100, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: 
> Op 15-03-13 12:09, Vibhav Pant schreef:
> 
> > Getting Nautilus 3.4 back would certainly involve using PPAs which
> > doesn't sound good. AskUbuntu, #ubuntu on irc and the Ubuntu Forums
> > expect users *not* to use PPAs if they want help,so we should not be
> > adding a special section. 
> > 
> That sounds patronizing to me ): But I agree it would not be such a
> good idea to let beginners install from PPAs.
> 
> On IRC Kevin wrote (and Carsten agrees):
> hannie: Since the manual is primarily for people just starting to use
> Ubuntu, I think it'd be too confusing to say, 'Here's how the file
> manager works. But this one stinks and you should install this other
> one instead.'  I think we're better off just documenting the default
> file manager.
> Ok, that means I will have some (re)writing to do on Nautilus.
> Hannie
> > 
> > PS: I don't remember the reason why they were removed, but GNOME had
> > some reasons for it. 
> I got the information from omgubuntu.uk. This could be the reason:
> 
> 
> Now, in all fairness, the removal of this feature makes sense… in
> GNOME-Shell. There Nautilus isn’t used to ‘handle the desktop’.
> 
> But the removal doesn’t take into account the many LInux
> distributions, which includes Ubuntu, that are built upon GNOME but
> following its touch-centric and pared back GNOME OS design vision.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Hannie Dumoleyn
> > <lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> >         To all,
> >         It looks as if the file manager used in Raring will be
> >         "Files". I am not happy with this at all. Since I am
> >         responsible for the Nautilus section I wonder if I should
> >         write a special section on how to get Nautilus 3.4 back in
> >         Raring.
> >         Look at the following list of features that have been
> >         removed:
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         Nautilus 3.6 (now called Files)
> >         Amongst the features you will find missing in the version of
> >         Nautilus (now renamed ‘Files’) are ones you may have used on
> >         a daily basis, including:
> >         
> >               * Compact View removed 
> >                 
> >               * ‘Type Ahead Find’ removed 
> >                 
> >               * ‘New file’ templates removed 
> >                 
> >               * Application Menu removed 
> >                 
> >               * ‘Go’ menu removed 
> >                 
> >               * F3 split screen removed 
> >                 
> >               * ‘tree’ view removed 
> >                 
> >               * Bookmark menu items removed 
> >                 
> >               * Backspace shortcut to return to parent folder
> >                 removed
> >                 
> >         
> >         I wonder what you think about this.
> >         Regards,
> >         Hannie
> >         
> >         
> >         
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