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Re: Worrying nautilus development direction, New default file manager?

 

> I think the proposal to swap Nautilus with Marlin should at least be made
> part of the agenda for discussion/consideration at UDS-R.

True - Marlin is contemporan and useful
but Nautilus Elementary was the best of ...

2012/7/5 nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I think the proposal to swap Nautilus with Marlin should at least be made
> part of the agenda for discussion/consideration at UDS-R.
>
> Some of the things GNOME is removing from nautilus is probably good. When it
> officially lands, it may not be that bad. But regardless, it never hurts to
> discuss the Marlin idea at UDS.
>
> ________________________________
> From: bwat47@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:09:52 -0400
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Unity-design] Worrying nautilus development direction, New default
> file manager?
>
>
> 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?
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