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

 

Oh I am a die hard Marlin fanboy, so if the call was up to me I would have
went with Marlin :)
Anyway, why I think Marlin should draw the desktop is because the current
implementation of the panel shadow depends on the file manager drawing the
desktop. Disable the desktop drawing from gnome-tweak-tool and you have no
panel shadow. Also, if I remember correctly, disabling that will also
disable the ability of opening the Dash with pressing super (a.k.a. Windows
key) and possibly more keyboard shortcuts. Last, but not least having no
file manager to draw the desktop means that there will be no desktop icons.
Marlin dev - am-monkeyd is a great guy to talk with, and he will be open to
talk about contributions to Marlin :)

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