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The Future of Nautilus

20 points by dchest 16y ago

yesimahuman 16y ago
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116444/nautilus-ui-experiments.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116444/nautilus-ui-experiments.png Looks pretty!
houseabsolute 16y ago
Nautilus is always going to be hobbled by the huge padding that gnome's default themes put between text and object borders. It's just hard when you can only fit 50% as much information in the same number of pixels. That was one of the big things that drove me away from Linux and is still an ongoing problem when I have to work with Gnome programs.
- jcw 16y ago
  The Gnome UI (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc) generally takes up a huge amount of screen space. I've found that I'm pretty happy with aewm and Thunar.
aphyr 16y ago
Perhaps a better question: can it start in under 30 seconds? If you don't use Nautilus for your desktop, opening those file browser windows is a serious drag!
levesque 16y ago
Why does everyone wanna remake nautilus from scratch all of a sudden? This is the third project of this type I've bumped into in the last week. Maybe they should join efforts. Contextual file manager : http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/first-sezen-screencast-an-introduction-to-sexy-simple-searching/ http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/first-sezen-screencast-an... Log File Manager : http://www.seifsallam.co.cc/2010/06/how-file-manager-should-be.html http://www.seifsallam.co.cc/2010/06/how-file-manager-should-...
ahk 16y ago
Is it this http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ ?
wazoox 16y ago
Why not ditch Nautilus and use directly Rox, or thunar instead? :)
adbge 16y ago
Don't remove the "go up a directory button," PLEASE. Finder and Explorer try to mask the file tree structure through little UI gimmicks like this and it drives me crazy. Better search integration would be great. Improved indexing support via GVFS (or whatever) to make search lightning fast combined with a well placed search bar would make my life easier.
jcw 16y ago
I'm curious to know how much user testing goes into the design of the Gnome desktop environment (and KDE, for that matter). Designing a visually elegant interface is one thing, but that can mean nothing during actual user interaction.
kilian 16y ago
I really wonder why the nautilus developers aren't working the the Elementary[1] developers more. Nautilus-Elementary is basically a fork of nautilus at this point, and already it is much better and does a lot of the things this article proposes to add. It just seems like a bit of a waste of everyone's time. [1] http://www.elementary-project.com/discover.html http://www.elementary-project.com/discover.html

20 points by dchest 16y ago

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116444/nautilus-ui-experiments.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116444/nautilus-ui-experiments.png Looks pretty!

houseabsolute 16y ago

Nautilus is always going to be hobbled by the huge padding that gnome's default themes put between text and object borders. It's just hard when you can only fit 50% as much information in the same number of pixels. That was one of the big things that drove me away from Linux and is still an ongoing problem when I have to work with Gnome programs.

jcw 16y ago
The Gnome UI (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc) generally takes up a huge amount of screen space. I've found that I'm pretty happy with aewm and Thunar.

aphyr 16y ago

Perhaps a better question: can it start in under 30 seconds? If you don't use Nautilus for your desktop, opening those file browser windows is a serious drag!

levesque 16y ago

Why does everyone wanna remake nautilus from scratch all of a sudden? This is the third project of this type I've bumped into in the last week. Maybe they should join efforts. Contextual file manager : http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/first-sezen-screencast-an-introduction-to-sexy-simple-searching/ http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/first-sezen-screencast-an... Log File Manager : http://www.seifsallam.co.cc/2010/06/how-file-manager-should-be.html http://www.seifsallam.co.cc/2010/06/how-file-manager-should-...

ahk 16y ago

Is it this http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ ?

wazoox 16y ago

Why not ditch Nautilus and use directly Rox, or thunar instead? :)

adbge 16y ago

Don't remove the "go up a directory button," PLEASE. Finder and Explorer try to mask the file tree structure through little UI gimmicks like this and it drives me crazy. Better search integration would be great. Improved indexing support via GVFS (or whatever) to make search lightning fast combined with a well placed search bar would make my life easier.

jcw 16y ago

I'm curious to know how much user testing goes into the design of the Gnome desktop environment (and KDE, for that matter). Designing a visually elegant interface is one thing, but that can mean nothing during actual user interaction.

kilian 16y ago

I really wonder why the nautilus developers aren't working the the Elementary[1] developers more. Nautilus-Elementary is basically a fork of nautilus at this point, and already it is much better and does a lot of the things this article proposes to add. It just seems like a bit of a waste of everyone's time. [1] http://www.elementary-project.com/discover.html http://www.elementary-project.com/discover.html