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[SorinN <nemes.sorin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, Benjamin

>And how can you say that Marlin looks promising? It's still not even in 0.1? :) They seem to be developing at a fine >pace, however here's an example of the type of bug fixing that it's still missing:

I was saying the he look promising because .Marlin really look
promising and development is active.
... in fact, they made the best one in the Gnome World - the name was
Nautilus Elementary
...on the same time also, the world craziness  started to get some
speed - so my joy was very  short, Gnome 2 was out of line.

The progress come to look like a big regression when Gnome 3 and Unity
arrived under the sun. Easy things started to be complicated, we loose
'Nautilus Elementary' and elevated simplicity, Instead, we got big
icons just in case - maybe we will confuse the computer screen with
the phone.

Of course the best idea is to build a new file manager - but who will
build the new shinny one ?

And why we can't cooperate all to help Marlin to go where we want ? -
I observed for few years now that to ask for a new toy is very common
in Open Source world - but how to cooperate, like in all good times ?
..

I feel that  we can solve our big things in a very collaborative way -
let's make a list of wishes (because we are all a man of his wish [ I
do not say witch.. ;) take care]). Then let's have a meeting with
Marlin developers - show'em the list  and let's help them fixing
things and polish / uzability-ish / full-feature-ish our baby.

Instead of splitting energies we will get at least a powerful community.

This way will go much normal and easier - I suspect that Marlin guys
have everything on place, less time and a sharp clear feedback from
Userland (I mean feedback focused on problems not just in '...Wow -
your File Manager is Awesome Bingo ').



2012/7/18 Benjamin Bach <benjaoming@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 12 July 2012 19:45, SorinN <nemes.sorin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> please explain mr. Curtis (you point against 90' UI's or pro) ?
>>
>> anyway today we live a crazy time when anyone want to change something
>> ;) god / bad not important - but must be changed because ..yes we live
>> crazzy times when the form beat the function.
>
>
> Yes, I agree. You can't just point at a few UI glitches and demand a whole
> new file manager to be written or something radically different to replace
> the existing one. Thousands of users are adapted to Nautilus, and its
> functionality is well-tested, complicated and hard to just invent all over.
> It has lots of plugins, and many programs probably rely on its existence.
>
> If anything, just propose a set of patches for Ubuntu, for instance one that
> removes the breadcrumb name shortening (which I actually find pretty useful
> compared to the old alternative where higher level breadcrumbs were often
> missing because of lack of space).
>
> And how can you say that Marlin looks promising? It's still not even in 0.1?
> :) They seem to be developing at a fine pace, however here's an example of
> the type of bug fixing that it's still missing:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/marlin/+bug/914653
>
> I fully support development of a better file manager, but do not replace the
> existing one with something that's not yet matured.
>
> /Ben
>
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