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Posted Mar 17, 2011 3:29 UTC (Thu) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
In reply to: Fallback mode by corbet
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Nautilus is actually surprisingly useful for quick network mount stuff where you don't want to go to the hassle of setting up fuse, nfs, or whatever, or when finding music files, and so on. It actually is a very nice piece of software these days. It took about 10 years for me to actually use it, because I was always convinced that "real" computer users (i.e. old school UNIX) wouldn't be seen dead doing anything other than on a command line. Maybe, in ten more years, I'll come around to the idea of using 3D for anything other than academia, number crunching, or pretty games.

Of course, nautilus is gone too now. Which is so sad. After about ten years, after it reaches the point of being "just works" software for me...now it's back to 5 years ago with Thunar - a great project, but it'll need time to catch up. And, of course, we'll rinse and repeat this in a few more years.

Jon.

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 9:22 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link] (2 responses)

Nautilus usable ? Even on SSD and all the previews disabled it still takes ages to list a large directory.

I'm fairly certain there is an architectual mistake in Nautilus which is never gonna get fixed so it will never be faster listing 'large' directories.

I just checked, it takes 7 seconds to open a directory with 318 items every time you go to that directory. There is no caching or anything like that ? Really 7 seconds ? That makes no sense to me.

Nautilus just makes me sad to think that it would be the best/most advanced.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 7:28 UTC (Fri) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link] (1 responses)

> Nautilus usable ? Even on SSD and all the previews disabled it still takes
> ages to list a large directory.

Just use thunar. It lists directories with thousands of entries pretty quickly. It also caches previews of media files, etc.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 8:55 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

I know Thunar, I'm just surprised Nautilus is still being used in GNOME and default on so many Linux distributions.

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 13:08 UTC (Thu) by coulamac (guest, #21690) [Link] (2 responses)

Nautilus is still present in both Gnome Shell and fallback mode. Just launch it. Do you mean that by default Nautilus does not handle the background?

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Posted Mar 17, 2011 17:28 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link] (1 responses)

We no longer show screenshots over the background, no.

(I say this jokingly because gnome-screenshot is the only app I know of that explicitly saved things to ~/Desktop; since browsers moved downloads to ~/Downloads...)

You can access the "Computer" and Trash from the Files app.

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Posted Mar 22, 2011 22:01 UTC (Tue) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

Ah but, you can configure applications to save documents there. Or as I do, put them there when asked for each download.