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[Arian van Gend <waggy@xxxxxxxx>]

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html

Canonical considered it, but rejected it, as it was considered hackish, as
you can read there. A week later Marlin was announced on OMGUbuntu, so the
timing seemed interesting to me.

But i agree, Marlin seems nice and as soon as it surpasses Nautilus we
should consider switching over. :)

2010/11/16 Vishnoo <vish@xxxxxxxxxx>

> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 10:14 +0100, Arian van Gend wrote:
> > But fortunately, Marlin will come along to replace it.
> >
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/nautilus-elementary-is-dead-marlin-file-browser/
> >
> > This could very well be a reaction to fact that Canonical decided
> > against using Nautilus Elementary because the code seems hackish to
> > them. This will be clean and fresh. :)
>
> Where was that announced? ;-)
> Canonical did not decide anything here and had no role in Marlin.
>
> It was just Nautilus upstream which said that[hackisk] for a /few/
> patches, which was mostly the n-e toolbar editor.
> And we did try to work with Nautilus upstream and iirc some code has
> been merged but upstream is busy atm with their own work, further with
> their 'new' designs were not very open to suggestions or ideas which had
> worked in nautilus-elementary.
>
> The lead programmer who worked on nautilus-elementary had found nautilus
> code to be very bloated and had started working on a faster file browser
> a while ago. But just dint have time to spend on releasing a new browser
> until recently.
> At the same time Nautilus upstream had trouble with people filing n-e
> bugs in Nautilus bugzilla, and were not happy with the naming of this
> fork.
> What better timing for Marlin..? ;-)
> Maybe for 11.1O cycle we can switch from Nautilus to Marlin, if Marlin
> is ready.. ;)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Vish
>
>


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