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[cmaglothin <cmaglothin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not to detract from current conversation, but how is calling an app that
deals solely with files by the name Files bad? It is simple and
descriptive. If I were new, I would feel less confused by a name like
Files, which states the exact nature of the application, than by something
as nondescript and random as a pair of saltwater animals.

A file manager should not be a main feature of an operating system.
Applications should be at the forefront. If I open a document application,
it should show me all of my documents and give me an option to start new
ones. Of course the file manager should be there, be usable, and be
accessible to those who wish to use it, but generally I feel that
applications should deal with where files go and leave the user to do
creative things with those files.
On Jul 19, 2012 11:40 PM, "Gregory Merchan" <gregory.merchan@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > . . . <
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ef467c8775392d0f0feb0e38f7a80f2d41719d84
> >
>
> SMH. I wish I hadn't seen that.
>
> Am I reading this right: Nautilus now has only an icon view and a
> tree-less details view? One folder per window, but it's a browser
> style interaction?
>
>
> > Some of the rest, though, as Federico Mena Quintero described it, is
> > "just vandalism".
> > <
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-July/msg00022.html
> >
>
> I cheered a little when I saw that.
>
>
> > . . .
> > What would help, first, is for people to compile a thorough feature
> > comparison, both for users and contributors. (Maybe use pad.ubuntu.com
> > for this.) What does Nautilus still have that Marlin, or Elementary
> > Files, does not? What would we lose if we switched right now?
>
> Should I be able to access pad.ubuntu.com?
>
> I got confused somewhere in all this. I thought Elementary Files
> (awful, awful name) was Marlin under a new maintainer.
>
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