If nothing else, I could expand the "Advanced Topics" chapter a bit, to include adding PPA's and making changes like that. With the obvious warnings that it's not a recommended or supported approach. And I could use the adding a PPA to get this back as an example of how to do it.
On a slightly related note, I just thought about adding information about changing desktops to the Advanced Topics section as well (adding Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc). Although this might create a hassle, since people won't know where to look for information specific to those desktops. Have a great day.:) Patrick. On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 16:59 +0100, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: > Op 15-03-13 12:09, Vibhav Pant schreef: > > > Getting Nautilus 3.4 back would certainly involve using PPAs which > > doesn't sound good. AskUbuntu, #ubuntu on irc and the Ubuntu Forums > > expect users *not* to use PPAs if they want help,so we should not be > > adding a special section. > > > That sounds patronizing to me ): But I agree it would not be such a > good idea to let beginners install from PPAs. > > On IRC Kevin wrote (and Carsten agrees): > hannie: Since the manual is primarily for people just starting to use > Ubuntu, I think it'd be too confusing to say, 'Here's how the file > manager works. But this one stinks and you should install this other > one instead.' I think we're better off just documenting the default > file manager. > Ok, that means I will have some (re)writing to do on Nautilus. > Hannie > > > > PS: I don't remember the reason why they were removed, but GNOME had > > some reasons for it. > I got the information from omgubuntu.uk. This could be the reason: > > > Now, in all fairness, the removal of this feature makes sense… in > GNOME-Shell. There Nautilus isn’t used to ‘handle the desktop’. > > But the removal doesn’t take into account the many LInux > distributions, which includes Ubuntu, that are built upon GNOME but > following its touch-centric and pared back GNOME OS design vision. > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Hannie Dumoleyn > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To all, > > It looks as if the file manager used in Raring will be > > "Files". I am not happy with this at all. Since I am > > responsible for the Nautilus section I wonder if I should > > write a special section on how to get Nautilus 3.4 back in > > Raring. > > Look at the following list of features that have been > > removed: > > > > > > > > Nautilus 3.6 (now called Files) > > Amongst the features you will find missing in the version of > > Nautilus (now renamed ‘Files’) are ones you may have used on > > a daily basis, including: > > > > * Compact View removed > > > > * ‘Type Ahead Find’ removed > > > > * ‘New file’ templates removed > > > > * Application Menu removed > > > > * ‘Go’ menu removed > > > > * F3 split screen removed > > > > * ‘tree’ view removed > > > > * Bookmark menu items removed > > > > * Backspace shortcut to return to parent folder > > removed > > > > > > I wonder what you think about this. > > Regards, > > Hannie > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
