Looks like this won't just be a problem with nautilus either, it looks like the future development for all their apps is giving them interfaces that are ONLY optimized for touch, and not giving a damn about desktop/laptops:
http://worldofgnome.org/the-futuristic-design-of-all-gnome-apps/ On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Gregory Merchan <gregory.merc...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Brandon Watkins <bwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gnome has started tearing out nautilus features left and right during > gnome > > 3.6 development: > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vyyw9/heads_up_on_changes_in_nautilus_for_36/ > , > > and making some very questionable design decisions, such as this > incredibly > > ugly and pointless name shortening that makes the breadcrumb impossible > to > > read: > > > http://iloveubuntu.net/nautilus-352-landed-ubuntu-1210-new-features-and-removals > > > > I think its looking like ubuntu should start looking into a new default > file > > manager, since gnome seems intent on tearing nautilus apart, something > like > > marlin (https://launchpad.net/marlin) looks like it has potential. > > > > Thoughts? > > I think it was my first post on this list: Nautilus needs to be replaced. > > A file manager must have three basic views, IMO: > 1) icon view with a spatial mode preserving place and size. > 2) tree view with details > 3) Miller columns > > Other views, like Apple's Coverflow or a light table, are gravy; they > are nice, but not essential. > > Marlin has an icon view, but I don't see that it has spatial mode. > (I'm running Windows at the moment and can't check. Sigh. Work.) > > It appears to have a tree view with details. (Called a "list view", > but I found screenshots with disclosure triangles next to folders.) > > It appears to be the only Gtk+ (or other) file manager with Miller > columns, besides the thing I started writing over a decade ago and > never finished. (If I could remember why I called it "Duck5", I might > have a funny story to tell.) > > The original author "lost interest" and the Elementary team has > supposedly picked it up. The news item says they'll be calling it > "Files". It's bad enough that Nautilus cannot decide whether it is > "Nautilus", "File Browser", or "Files"; we don't need a file manager > known only as "Files". I recommend "Foldarr!" . . . no, just kidding. > Maybe "Filer"? "Secretary"? Just keep calling it "Marlin" because the > user base isn't that great yet? > > Without the opportunity right now to try it out, Marlin seems like a > good replacement. >
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