Public bug reported:

Dear Canonical,

Today I discovered that a recent update has removed the "full date modified" 
column in nautilus, and replaced it by the day and month of modification.
A google search learned that this has indeed been removed. I'm guessing it's 
for no good reason, other than your determination to treat every desktop 
computer as a tablet.
There seems to be a fix, that involves recompiling nautilus: 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285493/how-to-show-full-date-and-time-in-nautilus-files-3-6-list-view
 - That must be a joke.
I've had enough.

When I started using Ubuntu 7 years ago, it was the best and most user-
friendly distribution that had been created up until that point. A
couple of release cycles later and I was recommending it to customers.
You had the first linux distribution that was a viable replacement for
windows in a business environment in your hands. Then you threw it all
away.

- You combined a wonderful graphical user experience, with all the power of 
command-line linux, then started replacing those command-line tools with crap 
like Network Manager, which took several release cycles to work properly.
- You got yourself into a fight with the gnome people, because you wanted a 
desktop that looked and worked like an ipad. You took an excellent and stable 
graphical user interface and replaced it by Unity, a replacement that took 2 
release cycles to work properly. Those business users who made the transition 
to Ubuntu were lining up to buy new copies of windows.

Nautilus worked great. And suddenly, the directory tree dissapears. Not 
tablet-suitable, I guess ? No way of getting it back.
Today, the modification date dissapears. Too many characters for a tablet 
screen ? No way of getting it back.

I understand the desire to work profitably after all the time, energy and money 
that was invested in ubuntu. Your current path however, is not the way to go. 
Instead of trying to buy into the fad that Apple in actuality is, you should 
redirect your efforts to the original goal: making a linux desktop operating 
system that provides a painless transition from microsoft.
If you want to put out a tablet version of ubuntu, that's great and it's what 
opensource is all about. Just don't do it at the expense of desktop users.

It took Redhat many many years to turn a respectable profit. Maybe it's time 
you realised that nobody really likes Redhat.
If you want profit, create an allround software environment that is suitable to 
businesses.

My two cents.

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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