On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 01:45 +0100, Mark wrote: > > I've seen nautilus as much more used as a kind of file activation > > shell rather than a hardcore file manager, and when that changes the > > rationale for spatial mode change too. > > Now this is interesting. I guess it was roughly 2 years ago that i > proposed the exact same thing about browser mode. Back then it ended > up in a huge flame war. Now you out of all people are proposing the > same thing and suddenly you get positive responses and even gnome > people that agree with it. Even a gnome person that proposes it! i > must have been ahead of my time when i proposed it. More on this some > lines down.
Interesting. You proposed gnome-shell as the replacement for nautilus as the desktop shell two years ago? Got any links to that proposal? > Now i didn't read every reply in this thread but i did saw the part to > split nautilus from the file management part and the mount part. Also > something i proposed a few years ago which was smashed down hard by a > lot of people, you included, so i hope the following proposal isn't > going to be smashed down since it's along the same lines just.. > different. I don't think splitting out the automounting stuff has ever been controversial. We're talking about a few hundred lines of code here. In fact, its only recently that nautilus has started doing this, it was done by gnome-volume-manager before. > KDE did a smart thing with KDE 4. They had konqueror as there file > management program but simply left it the way it was and made up > Dolphin just to restart the file management from scratch and be clean > again. > > I would propose to not touch nautilus! Make a new file manager just > like KDE did for KDE 4. Make that file manager to __only__ manage the > files! So you basically get a Dolphin only for Gnome. That way you can > leave the people that want to use nautilus happy and people that want > to use gnome-shall can use the new file manager (lets say: Sulituan > which is nautilus in reverse). KDE did this because konqueror was mainly a web browser. Nautilus is already only for managing files basically. I don't understand which part of nautilus you think are not for managing files. > If you don't like this idea then at the very least make nautilus less > tied with gnome. Split the desktop part, the mount part and probably > some other part that i don't even know right now off of nautilus. Let > nautilus do one thing: manage files. Not the desktop, not the mounts; > only files! What exactly do you mean by "mount part"? Its not really possible to split the "desktop part", its just a nautilus window without menus or toolbar. It requires as much of the nautilus codebase as any other nautilus window. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a jaded guitar-strumming werewolf with a robot buddy named Sparky. She's a high-kicking kleptomaniac angel with her own daytime radio talk show. They fight crime! -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list