>A) Patch Nautilus to have his HUD support back >B) Help Marlin dev(s) to improve Marlin (stability and drawing the desktop) >Surely there can be a new file manager built from scratch, but then again that >ain't that simple, is it? :)
Hmm ... A) Marlin was buid from scratch using Gnome 3 technologies. B) Any new build from scratch file manager - will cross the same stages as Marlin does now - therefore at first few bugs of the new file manager some other peoples will request a new file manager. Do not expect and don't even think that for the version 0.0.1 any new file-manager will work perfect - many bugs that users will fire on the new build from scratch file-manager will come probably from GTK components - but 80% users will burn the file-manager so the story will continue on in circles. C) It is much more rational to help Marlin / Nautilus to improve themselves then to build and build again from scratch. I'm afraid that Marlin is much more open to conversation than Nautilus - this is why my vote goes with Marlin. Nautilus is too fixed on Gnome 3 developers unique view regarding Usability and desktop metaphor (which in my honest opinion is the totally wrong way...) In interesting Idea - why Marlin should Draw the desktop ? I never understood why Nautilus draw the desktop - changes to the desktop icons or related things - are reflected in the Nautilus settings which is not convenient Why not a Desktop Manager in a separate process - with clear defined attributes - separated from the file manager - this way users can set up their desktop as they want and the changes will not affect File manager preferences. Of course in a separate process this desktop manager can use file manager functionality (rendering icons / arrange icons / etc).. 2012/7/19 Georgi Karavasilev <motors...@gmail.com>: > Well, to be honest whilst the new Nautilus does fix the horrible chopped > down toolbar, which was causing all kinds of issues with most of the themes > (light-themes included) and the back and forward are where they should be - > on the left it causes two problems: > A) It has no menubar, but rather a super menu gear button on the right, > hence no HUD support > B) Tree view and extra pane have been removed > Marlin is no way near stable and can't even draw the desktop (which is > essential for Unity), so at its current state it can't be considered an > alternative, so the simplest solutions I see are: > A) Patch Nautilus to have his HUD support back > B) Help Marlin dev(s) to improve Marlin (stability and drawing the desktop) > Surely there can be a new file manager built from scratch, but then again > that ain't that simple, is it? :) > > -- > 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 > -- Nemes Ioan Sorin -- 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
