http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html
Canonical considered it, but rejected it, as it was considered hackish, as you can read there. A week later Marlin was announced on OMGUbuntu, so the timing seemed interesting to me. But i agree, Marlin seems nice and as soon as it surpasses Nautilus we should consider switching over. :) 2010/11/16 Vishnoo <v...@ubuntu.com> > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 10:14 +0100, Arian van Gend wrote: > > But fortunately, Marlin will come along to replace it. > > > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/nautilus-elementary-is-dead-marlin-file-browser/ > > > > This could very well be a reaction to fact that Canonical decided > > against using Nautilus Elementary because the code seems hackish to > > them. This will be clean and fresh. :) > > Where was that announced? ;-) > Canonical did not decide anything here and had no role in Marlin. > > It was just Nautilus upstream which said that[hackisk] for a /few/ > patches, which was mostly the n-e toolbar editor. > And we did try to work with Nautilus upstream and iirc some code has > been merged but upstream is busy atm with their own work, further with > their 'new' designs were not very open to suggestions or ideas which had > worked in nautilus-elementary. > > The lead programmer who worked on nautilus-elementary had found nautilus > code to be very bloated and had started working on a faster file browser > a while ago. But just dint have time to spend on releasing a new browser > until recently. > At the same time Nautilus upstream had trouble with people filing n-e > bugs in Nautilus bugzilla, and were not happy with the naming of this > fork. > What better timing for Marlin..? ;-) > Maybe for 11.1O cycle we can switch from Nautilus to Marlin, if Marlin > is ready.. ;) > > -- > Cheers, > Vish > > -- http://avond.schemering.nl
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