[Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-10-31 Thread James Jenner
Hi All, I just noticed last night that the tool bar for the file browser under unity (I presume this is nautilus) has gone for 11.10. Obviously this is intentional but does anyone know why? The only reason I ask is that when working with large file sets I often switch between icon or detail view,

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Carl Ansell
Yep, it is nautilus. Try ctrl+1, ctrl+2 and ctrl+3. On 01/11/11 05:24, James Jenner wrote: Hi All, I just noticed last night that the tool bar for the file browser under unity (I presume this is nautilus) has gone for 11.10. Obviously this is intentional but does anyone know why? The only r

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 01. nov. 2011 01:24, skrev James Jenner: Hi All, I just noticed last night that the tool bar for the file browser under unity (I presume this is nautilus) has gone for 11.10. Obviously this is intentional but does anyone know why? That is not Unity. That is Gnome 3. Unity is used to laun

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread James Jenner
On 2 November 2011 01:23, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 01. nov. 2011 01:24, skrev James Jenner: > > Hi All, >> >> I just noticed last night that the tool bar for the file browser under >> unity (I presume this is nautilus) has gone for 11.10. Obviously this is >> intentional but does anyone k

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
Nautilus Elementary had it right in this department; since it is no longer being maintained, I hope Marlin will be an option soon, and will retain all that was good about Nautilus Elementary, and maybe gain some bulk-rename functionality from Thunar. While I love keyboard shortcuts, some peopl

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 02. nov. 2011 02:30, skrev anthropornis: Nautilus Elementary had it right in this department; since it is no longer being maintained, I hope Marlin will be an option soon, and will retain all that was good about Nautilus Elementary, and maybe gain some bulk-rename functionality from Thunar.

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread James Jenner
On 2 November 2011 11:30, anthropornis wrote: > Nautilus Elementary had it right in this department; since it is no > longer being maintained, I hope Marlin will be an option soon, and will > retain all that was good about Nautilus Elementary, and maybe gain some > bulk-rename functionality from

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
Or I could click one button one time. That is the essence of simplicity. Hopefully this will return in the future, whether from upstream, a Nautilus extension, a Canonical patch, or a Canonical selection of a different file manager as default. On 11/01/2011 09:39 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrot

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/11/2011 11:14, anthropornis wrote: > Or I could click one button one time. That is the essence of simplicity. You could say that for every commonly used feature there is. I don't frequently change views, for example, but I frequently change between showing hidden files and not. I also creat

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread James Jenner
On 2 November 2011 13:34, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 02/11/2011 11:14, anthropornis wrote: > > Or I could click one button one time. That is the essence of simplicity. > > You could say that for every commonly used feature there is. > > I don't frequently change views, for example, but I frequent

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/11/2011 12:25, James Jenner wrote: > > The solution before the current solution was to have a toolbar with buttons > for > common actions. Who said that the solution that was 'current' previously had > to > change? Upstream, I guess, but wouldn't you agree it looks much cleaner this way?

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
In Nautilus Elementary I had 3 buttons to switch views (icon, list, compact). It was on the same row as the location (text or breadcrumb) and was not cluttered for me at all. Cluttered is A) in the eye of the beholder B) dependent on screen resolution and C) typically something one can toggle

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
Agreed. Maybe the evolution of Nautilus, and Gnome in general, will move to completely terminal based everything, much less cluttered that way, no ugly GUI's tarnishing our screens. Maybe we need a file manager based on Emacs! On 11/02/2011 12:25 AM, James Jenner wrote: And you haven't addr

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/11/2011 12:43, anthropornis wrote: > In Nautilus Elementary I had 3 buttons to switch views (icon, list, compact). > It > was on the same row as the location (text or breadcrumb) and was not cluttered > for me at all. Strange. In my Nautilus Elementary, the buttons were on the status bar be

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
On 11/02/2011 12:43 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Upstream, I guess, but wouldn't you agree it looks much cleaner this way? It would be even cleaner without those pesky files listed in the middle. Hence, if we're going to add the change-view buttons onto the toolbar, then please add my show hidde

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread anthropornis
On 11/02/2011 01:09 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: In Nautilus Elementary I had 3 buttons to switch views (icon, list, compact). It was on the same row as the location (text or breadcrumb) and was not cluttered for me at all. Strange. In my Nautilus Elementary, the buttons were on the status bar besid

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-01 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 02. nov. 2011 06:24, skrev anthropornis: On 11/02/2011 01:09 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: In Nautilus Elementary I had 3 buttons to switch views (icon, list, compact). It was on the same row as the location (text or breadcrumb) and was not cluttered for me at all. Strange. In my Nautilus Elem

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-02 Thread James Jenner
On 2 November 2011 16:49, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 02. nov. 2011 06:24, skrev anthropornis: > > You have the right to choose exactly how Nautilus will look and feel. As I > said before, in another thread, you have 100% configurability if you really > want it. Some users now have to click t

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-02 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 02. nov. 2011 08:36, skrev James Jenner: Hi Jo-Erlend, (do you prefer just Jo?) I'm usually called Jo-Erlend, but I don't really care that much what you call me, as long as you don't call me at home. :) My understanding is that the configuration for the future is related to Unity, will

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-02 Thread James Jenner
On 2 November 2011 18:04, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > I'm usually called Jo-Erlend, but I don't really care that much what you > call me, as long as you don't call me at home. :) > > lol, no worries, I'll make sure I don't do that :-) > > I were attending remotely, and there was quite a bit o

Re: [Ayatana] buttons in file browser

2011-11-02 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 02. nov. 2011 09:33, skrev James Jenner: Ahh, that makes sense. Didn't realise that Nautilus supports plugins/extensions, good to know. I think I have to spend some time getting into some dev work on ubuntu related stuff this summer (your winter I believe), learn the ins and outs and start