I don't usually do announce mails for Nautilus, (the NEWS file gets posted on the ftp-release-list anway :) ). However, this release has some changes that I'd like to point out.
As discussed on the list[1] recently the Nautilus project is going to make a slight change of focus. Since a long time nautilus has been to a large extent the "shell" of the Gnome user interface for a lot of operations, but with the advent of gnome shell we want to make the shell interface the primary way to interact with the desktop when starting activities. This means that when nautilus is started it is more likely to be because the user wants to do some more advanced file management like restructuring the directory structure, or copying lots of files, rather than just locating a file and start working on it. This leads to the shift in focus which will in turn lead to a few changes in the UI. First of all we have switched to browser mode by default (spatial is still available from the prefs), secondly we have reorganized the browser UI and added a split view functionality. We're also in discussions about whether to have nautilus manage the desktop or not, and if so how it should look. This is all work in progress and further changes are coming as things mature. Follow the nautilus and gnome-shell list for further discussions. Note that we're not shipping gnome-shell (at least by default) for Gnome 2.30, so it could be considered a bit early to do these changes in Nautilus. I don't necessarily disagree with that, but I want to do these changes now so that we have enough time to finish and test them before Gnome 3.0. And, since many distros disable spatial mode by default anyway its not such a large change. 1) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2009-December/msg00001.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a globe-trotting soccer-playing ex-con She's a sarcastic wisecracking mermaid in the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight crime! -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
