I agree and it is in stark contrast to Dolphin, which KDE are putting a lot of time and effort into.
I'm not really sure what can be done with nautilus itself though. I doubt the unity team are likely to come up with a dedicated file manager replacement so it's up to the dash to take the brunt maybe? I'm not sure just how complex that would be from a coding point of view though. On 5 May 2012 23:32, Gregory Merchan <gregory.merc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading this list for a while, but only joined recently because > I somehow missed that subscription was open. I wish I'd joined earlier, > because there were times I wanted to offer solutions. I'll have to start by > offering a problem. > > Nautilus has been becoming less useful with each release. One of the most > recent offenses to all taste and sensibility was the removal of the > background setting options for folders. I believe emblem settings were > removed at the same time with the unfortunate side effect of my temporarily > emblem-marked folders becoming permanently so. > > Nautilus was never really complete. It's never had a Miller column mode. > Its spatial mode didn't have the toolkit or window manager support to work > properly: missing were at least proper focus handling and something like > _NET_WM_URL for a title bar path menu. The file property panels were in > many cases anemic. While emblems allowed some distinction, a tweak to the > icon color would have allowed distinctions that carried over into the modes > with smaller icons. The views for collections were never well developed and > seem to have been dropped altogether. Probably a hundred other things that > could have been done were not done. It seems headed to becoming one of the > worst file selection dialogs I've ever seen; I expect a "Close" button in > the bottom right corner any day now. > > Mainstream GNOME has all but abandoned Nautilus in favor of single-purpose > applications. That could be just an implementation detail, but I don't > think I've seen the kind of cohesion that you'd get from a good workplace > shell, like Nautilus could have been. Unity development seems to be > proceeding on the premise that a file manager is not needed. While files > and folders may not be the best way for me to organize my work, I really > can't afford to hire a design and programming team to create the special > purpose applications I need. I'll have to settle for the UNIX philosophy of > using good single-purpose tools together to "roll my own" applications, but > the available desktop environments don't seem to support that. GNUstep > probably does, but there's too big of a "get it working right" curve for > me. KDE might, but I can't use it for very long without getting dizzy and > nauseated from all the roll-over effects. XFCE seems to have broken Gtk+ to > achieve a look-and-feel on par with Xaw3d; maybe I just tried a buggy > release? GNOME's single-purpose applications are not the same thing as > single-purpose tools. And, really, only Unity has gotten rid of all the > extra menu bars and put the one in the place where it belongs. > > As I see it, there's a need for Unity to have it's own file manager. I > haven't seen any designs for this, at least none I liked enough to > remember. Is anyone else giving this any thought? What's going to replace > Nautilus? > > Needing at least a proper folder system, > Greg > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
