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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like this won't just be a problem with nautilus either, it looks like
the future development for all their apps is giving them interfaces that
are ONLY optimized for touch, and not giving a damn about desktop/laptops:

http://worldofgnome.org/the-futuristic-design-of-all-gnome-apps/

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Gregory Merchan
<gregory.merchan@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Gnome has started tearing out nautilus features left and right during
> gnome
> > 3.6 development:
> >
> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vyyw9/heads_up_on_changes_in_nautilus_for_36/
> ,
> > and making some very questionable design decisions, such as this
> incredibly
> > ugly and pointless name shortening that makes the breadcrumb impossible
> to
> > read:
> >
> http://iloveubuntu.net/nautilus-352-landed-ubuntu-1210-new-features-and-removals
> >
> > I think its looking like ubuntu should start looking into a new default
> file
> > manager, since gnome seems intent on tearing nautilus apart, something
> like
> > marlin (https://launchpad.net/marlin) looks like it has potential.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think it was my first post on this list: Nautilus needs to be replaced.
>
> A file manager must have three basic views, IMO:
> 1) icon view with a spatial mode preserving place and size.
> 2) tree view with details
> 3) Miller columns
>
> Other views, like Apple's Coverflow or a light table, are gravy; they
> are nice, but not essential.
>
> Marlin has an icon view, but I don't see that it has spatial mode.
> (I'm running Windows at the moment and can't check. Sigh. Work.)
>
> It appears to have a tree view with details. (Called a "list view",
> but I found screenshots with disclosure triangles next to folders.)
>
> It appears to be the only Gtk+ (or other) file manager with Miller
> columns, besides the thing I started writing over a decade ago and
> never finished. (If I could remember why I called it "Duck5", I might
> have a funny story to tell.)
>
> The original author "lost interest" and the Elementary team has
> supposedly picked it up. The news item says they'll be calling it
> "Files". It's bad enough that Nautilus cannot decide whether it is
> "Nautilus", "File Browser", or "Files"; we don't need a file manager
> known only as "Files". I recommend "Foldarr!" . . . no, just kidding.
> Maybe "Filer"? "Secretary"? Just keep calling it "Marlin" because the
> user base isn't that great yet?
>
> Without the opportunity right now to try it out, Marlin seems like a
> good replacement.
>