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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:14:01 +0100
> From: mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Worrying nautilus development direction, New default file manager?
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> Brandon Watkins wrote on 03/07/12 16:09:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> To be fair, a few of the changes make sense. There's little point
> having both Details view and Icon view with "Text beside icons". Split
> view is redundant with semi-maximized windows as found in Unity. And
> Backspace is a silly keyboard shortcut to use for anything except
> deleting something small.
> 

I find "semi-maximized window" (aka aero snap) + launcher (working with several windows of the same app)  to be many times clunky (lots of extra clicks) and buggy in ubuntu unfortunately.