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Could you comment on the points that have been made about removed features in nautilus and things like removing launchers? I'm not a heavy linux user myself but

by DeepDuh 14y ago

Could you comment on the points that have been made about removed features in nautilus and things like removing launchers? I'm not a heavy linux user myself but those issues stroke me as very significant, to the extent that I would never touch gnome3 because of this.

dkhenry 14y ago
I just copied a .sh script to my desktop and clicked on it. It launched the application. However the right click and make new shortcut has been removed. Was it a feature , yes. Should they have kept it, I say no You can't keep every menu option ever in all your dialogs. There are other ways ( and better ways ) to do the same thing.
- rhizome 14y ago
  There are other ways ( and better ways ) to do the same thing. Why don't I get to decide this for myself?
- thwarted 14y ago
  What are those other and better ways? The ability to bind random, personalized, easy to create scripts to file actions has been removed as far as I can tell. Not being able to drop a shell script into some place to make GUI file management easier is a regression. (I say "some place" because when I was using this feature, it took forever to find the right place as it changed between released/distributions and I had to experiment to find the right set of env vars that are set, because docs were lacking).
  - stuaxo 14y ago
    Pretty sure nautilus scripts still work; I'm on gnome 3.6 and have a bunch. ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
    - DeepDuh 14y ago
      I wouldn't bet on it in the long run though, the way they are murdering through features.
wting 14y ago
This article has a good summary of features removed from Nautilus 3.6: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-step-in-the-direction-poll http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-ste... It's pretty easy to replace Nautilus with Nemo though (the Cinnamon fork version that emulates the old Nautilus).
- josteink 14y ago
  The fact that you have a fork which is basically a point-in-time frozen version of a tool whose newest version nobody wants to use is pretty telling. The Gnome team would be wise to listen in on the feedback from the community. If they want a community that is. They seem to think that this "Gnome brand", "Gnome identity" and "Gnome platform" is the most important thing they need to concern themselves with these days.

by DeepDuh 14y ago

dkhenry 14y ago

I just copied a .sh script to my desktop and clicked on it. It launched the application. However the right click and make new shortcut has been removed. Was it a feature , yes. Should they have kept it, I say no You can't keep every menu option ever in all your dialogs. There are other ways ( and better ways ) to do the same thing.

rhizome 14y ago
There are other ways ( and better ways ) to do the same thing. Why don't I get to decide this for myself?
thwarted 14y ago
What are those other and better ways? The ability to bind random, personalized, easy to create scripts to file actions has been removed as far as I can tell. Not being able to drop a shell script into some place to make GUI file management easier is a regression. (I say "some place" because when I was using this feature, it took forever to find the right place as it changed between released/distributions and I had to experiment to find the right set of env vars that are set, because docs were lacking).
- stuaxo 14y ago
  Pretty sure nautilus scripts still work; I'm on gnome 3.6 and have a bunch. ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
  - DeepDuh 14y ago
    I wouldn't bet on it in the long run though, the way they are murdering through features.

wting 14y ago

This article has a good summary of features removed from Nautilus 3.6: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-step-in-the-direction-poll http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-ste... It's pretty easy to replace Nautilus with Nemo though (the Cinnamon fork version that emulates the old Nautilus).

josteink 14y ago
The fact that you have a fork which is basically a point-in-time frozen version of a tool whose newest version nobody wants to use is pretty telling. The Gnome team would be wise to listen in on the feedback from the community. If they want a community that is. They seem to think that this "Gnome brand", "Gnome identity" and "Gnome platform" is the most important thing they need to concern themselves with these days.