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After temporarily coming back to GNOME from spending a lot of time with KDE, I've found Nautilus to be pretty much worse than even Windows Explorer. Besides the
by dotnet00 5y ago
After temporarily coming back to GNOME from spending a lot of time with KDE, I've found Nautilus to be pretty much worse than even Windows Explorer. Besides the issues mentioned, some other issues I run into:
- Can't manually type in a path
- Moving into a mounted drive clears navigation history, so can't back out to the previous directory
I also somewhat miss how Dolphin would re-open where I left it, tabs and all. That said, I'm on v3.36.3 so maybe it has fixed those issues in the 2 years since.
- vbezhenar 5y agoI think that you need to press Ctrl+L to type a path.
- dcminter 5y agoI'm a long-time Linux user and I know the short cut and use it often. Nonetheless I have no notion why the Nautilus developers consider this to be a better UI than just rendering an editable path!
- jeroenhd 5y agoHonestly, I'd be fine with it if "edit path" was an option in the dropdown menu for navigation pills. I guess the Nautilus designers drank too much of the Apple kool-aid and decided that advanced features like custom paths should be avoided at all cost.
- johnny22 5y agoi actually prefer the pills by default, but what I don't like is that it's not clear you can switch.
- dijit 5y agoWhich incidentally is the same hot key used to go to the url bar on browsers
- _Microft 5y agoMnemonic: L for Location
- throwaway48375 5y agoI've always used ALT-D.
- goosedragons 5y agoYou do, which is dumb, it should be doable by mouse or really really easy to find. It shouldn't require Googling or hunting. Ctrl+L is listed on page 2 of the keyboard shortcuts for Nautilus when it's arguably such a basic thing that at very least it should be in the stupid hamburger menu. Keyboard shortcuts should be a shortcut not the only way to do something.
- cassepipe 5y agoIt's the same shortcut as in all browsers, same for Ctrl+T or Ctrl+W that operates on tabs (Yes Nemo has tabs). The same way a browser is also a file crawler and viewer. It's the same paradigm. So no definitely not dumb.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoAnd in KeepassXC it's lock database, which is infuriating when it's your muscle memory for "focus that primary thing you type into" and your unlock password is long.
- goosedragons 5y agoWhat browser requires you to hit Ctrl+L to enter an URL? I'm not saying the choice of Ctrl+L is dumb, but the choice that the only way to enter a path is Ctrl+L.
- dotnet00 5y agoHuh, I hadn't considered that they might have a shortcut for it, TIL! That will definitely easy that pain point a lot, although it's still a somewhat odd decision to not have the path in the bar editable too.
- seiferteric 5y agoYou don't even need that, you can just start typing the path and the path bar will show up on top.
- Jnr 5y agoProbably because Windows Explorer is great file manager. By the way, in Nautilus you can type path, the shortcut is ctrl+l Nautilus is pretty bad but I find macOS Finder even worse.
- no_time 5y ago>By the way, in Nautilus you can type path, the shortcut is ctrl+l Obligatory what the fuck were they thinking. I'm glad there is no api to access the "flash bios" button on the motherboard because some nautilus dev would surely find a feature like this to bind to that button.
- protomyth 5y agoI can AppleScript to Finder on the toolbar and do some pretty nice stuff. For example, the script to add a button to open a terminal in the directory the window is showing is trivial.
- Affric 5y agoWould you be willing to share such a script? I found this example code from 2008 for an up button on the apple website: `tell application "Finder" set the target of Finder window 1 to (container of target of Finder window 1) end tell` But I am getting an error on modern OSX... I would be interested to see how your button works :)
- protomyth 5y agoWell, Affric you seem to have done something, so here is the code: tell application "Finder" set myWin to window 1 set thePath to (POSIX path of (target of myWin as alias)) set thePath to (quoted form of POSIX path of (target of myWin as alias)) tell application "Terminal" activate tell window 1 do script "cd " & thePath end tell end tell end tell You use it to create an application and then change the icon to something appropriate.
- klodolph 5y agoI’m curious what you dislike about the macOS Finder. I like it to the point that if I need to organize a bunch of files, I’ll sometimes just export the folder as a file share so I can organize the files from a Mac over the network.
- alex3305 5y ago> - Can't manually type in a path As a Windows user, recently I found myself within a new Ubuntu install. I wanted to view `/opt/` in file manager, but I couldn't find howto enter a path. A function that is really easy and intuitive in Windows Explorer. The first answer on Google was `CTRL+L`, which worked. But the stark difference of the ease of use between these two applications still baffles me.
- mynameismon 5y agoFun fact: Windows Explorer also has the same hotkey for typing out the path.
- Stratoscope 5y agoYou can also just type / or ~ to start typing a path from the root or your home directory. That said, I am with you, I like Windows Explorer best of all.
- jotm 5y agoThe only problem I ever had with KDE is it randomly hogging the CPU. On different machines, same problem. And not just for a minute, but 10+. Still not sure what the reason was, that was Fedora 24 to 30 and some random Kubuntu between (yep, all had that problem randomly). Maybe it's fixed these days. GNOME just got worse and worse lol
- simion314 5y ago>The only problem I ever had with KDE is it randomly hogging the CPU. Can you be more specific, like what process exactly did that?
- rhn_mk1 5y agoNot OP, but plasmashell, activitymanagerd, recently krunner. The first two because I have a sshfs mount, the latter only recently for no good reason.
- simion314 5y ago>Not OP, but plasmashell, activitymanagerd, recently krunner. The first two because I have a sshfs mount, the latter only recently for no good reason. I don't doubt you, I never had performance issue with my KDE though I always run LTS Kubuntu. I am wondering why plasma or activity monitor would have issues with your filesystem.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoMy guess is that they query a service that does file operations for no good reason, and then busy wait for it.
- zorr 5y agoWhen my machines were doing that on Plasma it was typically the Baloo file indexing or some Akonadi related process that was going crazy on the CPU. This week I switched back to Gnome Shell after a few years of Plasma on my main desktop and I must say it feels a lot more responsive than Plasma.
- phoronixrly 5y agoHad the same issue when trying to switch over my dad to a Linux distro. Absolutely had to find an alternative to Nautilus that was intuitive to a Windows Explorer user. Closest I could find was PCManFM.
- tomrod 5y agoNemo is nice. I haven't checked ssh mount but it handles mounting Google drive with no issue. It's part of Cinnamon, which is the user-positive Gnome2 fork (versus Gnome3's user hostile approach)
- zozbot234 5y agoMATE is the Gnome2 fork, Cinnamon forks Gnome3.
- tomrod 5y agoTIL. Thanks for the clarification. It is quite superior to Gnome3. I'm glad the developers built it.
- jorvi 5y agoYou are much better off using Overgrive. Last time I used the integrated Google Drive / Dropbox sync in any distro, the performance was abysmal.
- pmontra 5y agoI'm on Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME and I installed Nemo because of type ahead search. It works well.
- marcodiego 5y agoNot very discoverable, but just like on the browser, hit ctrl+l.