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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course applications should be smart about this, and your average user
shouldn't need to delve into the file manager too much, but many of us
don't want to rely on applications automatically managing our files and
still use the file manager plenty :)

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:51 AM, cmaglothin <cmaglothin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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