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

 

Yet another feature removed in nautilus recently: templates. You can no
longer right click > create new file. I definitely think we should at least
be patching basically functionality like that back...

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
> I think its looking like ubuntu should start looking into a new default
> file manager, since gnome seems intent on tearing nautilus apart, something
> like marlin (https://launchpad.net/marlin) looks like it has potential.
>
> Thoughts?

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