Actually, I think if Nautilus was updated and was a lot more advanced than it is now (if this is a GNOME application, we can't do anything). If it was updated as I stated, i would be happy for it to stay. IMHO, Dolphin would suit Ubuntu, but it's too bad it's a KDE app. Thanks!
In Christ, Ryan On May 9, 2012, at 6:24 PM, nick rundy <nru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I agree, Nautilus should go. Frankly, I'd like to see Nautilus go solely for > the fact that this bug still exists: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552093 > > It's only logical to assume that GNOME is abandoning Nautilus--why else would > they devote resources to those stupid "single purpose applications" when > Nautilus is so plagued with bugs and needs much improvement? > > The other thing that makes Nautilus unusable is the fact that it doesn't > display content of mp3 tags when in details view. When I'm managing/deleting > things that have mp3 tags (like podcasts), the inability to read the mp3 tags > in Details view makes Nautilus incapable of effectively managing a digital > walkman or ipod. I'm always forced back to the Windows-Explorer file-browser > when I need to deal with ipod, walkman etc. > > So hopefully a new file-browser will fix Nautilus-bug-552093 and display mp3 > tags in Details view but keeps all of Nautilus' strengths. Some have > complained about looks, but I think Nautilus looks good in 12.04. Best it's > ever looked IMHO. > > > > Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 17:32:39 -0500 > From: gregory.merc...@gmail.com > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Unity-design] Replacing Nautilus > > 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
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