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

 

Omar
you don't know about you talk about
Nautilus Elementary ( the Marlin precursor ) was all about you talk here ...

;) not that was funny


2012/7/19 Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> meh file managers are so 1995, if they wanted to make another  file manager
> from scratch, would probably be cooler to add browsing, bread crumbs and
> some other options to the file-lens and convert it to the file-manager-lens
> :)
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:21:46 +0300
> From: motorslav@xxxxxxxxx
> To: bwat47@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Worrying nautilus development direction, New
> default file manager?
>
> Well, to be honest whilst the new Nautilus does fix the horrible chopped
> down toolbar, which was causing all kinds of issues with most of the themes
> (light-themes included) and the back and forward are where they should be -
> on the left it causes two problems:
> A) It has no menubar, but rather a super menu gear button on the right,
> hence no HUD support
> B) Tree view and extra pane have been removed
> Marlin is no way near stable and can't even draw the desktop (which is
> essential for Unity), so at its current state it can't be considered an
> alternative, so the simplest solutions I see are:
> A) Patch Nautilus to have his HUD support back
> B) Help Marlin dev(s) to improve Marlin (stability and drawing the desktop)
> Surely there can be a new file manager built from scratch, but then again
> that ain't that simple, is it? :)
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