Hi, with Nautilus 3.0 around the corner, I went ahead and removed 'Backgrounds and Emblems' from nautilus.
There are some reasons for it: - the code is quite old and crufty, pulls in a lot of libeel code and is basically unmaintained. - the feature, as it stands, is not really useful, and it's more cosmetic than anything else, especially now that we use browser mode by default. - we're trying to achieve a more streamlined nautilus (see e.g. [1] and [2]), and removing legacy features goes in the right direction. Note that this does not completely remove the ability for extensions (e.g. Dropbox) to add emblems programmatically by using the libnautilus-extension library, just the user-added emblems from the properties dialog/emblems sidebar. Also, the 'Information' sidebar is gone, for basically the same reasons. We will keep to investigate a more powerful and up-to-date metadata/keyword integration for nautilus in the future anyway. The branch I merged is split into atomic commits for every removal, so it's relatively easy to backtrack changes if this caused any regressions. [1] http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2009/07/24/nautilus-streamlined/ [2] http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/20/the-future-of-nautilus/ Cheers, Cosimo -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
