95 comments

1. Ivan Sagalaev wrote,

   For us, users of spatial mode, this looks just amusing . I’m not trying to diminish the results but am hinting the real solution to the chrome/content ratio problem.

2. f wrote,

   hmm nice, but how do i access my “open in terminal” menu item now?

3. Lubomir wrote,

   I believe disabling the labels with a patch is bad. Why don’t you use the System > Preferences > Appearance dialog and switch the labels off there? IMHO that’s a far better way as it’s system wide setting.

4. Andreas Nilsson wrote,

   You cheated a bit in your final screenshot, as you got rid of the menubar as well.
   Anyway, good to see progress here! Looks great!

5. ethana2 wrote,

   Gnome Globalmenu FTFW!!

6. Roman Kennke wrote,

   Regarding the text under the icons, there is a setting somewhere that controls if you have icons only, text only or both. The gnome browser epiphany respects this setting as do all other gnome programs, the question is why does firefox _not_ respect them, or should firefox be made respect them, and the default probably changed to icon w/o text? Also, the size of the buttons matches the size of other gnome programs, so the thing that is inconsistent here is clearly firefox.

7. Rob wrote,

   looks great! anyway to get it working on fedora?

8. ethana2 wrote,

   I will say though that I always turn status bars off in every application that I use, and it still seems like a waste of space in your screenshot.

   ‘6 items’? NS, Sherlock.
   ‘Free space: 196.6 GB’? Chances are, I don’t care. If I do, it should be easy enough to find out another way.

9. Hezy wrote,

   Very nice, it is much better this way. I do notice that it looks almost exactly like Thunar.

10. boromil wrote,

    Try Thunar

11. Oren wrote,

    It looks much better. It IS much better

    One thing missing IMO: I would like to have “computer” added to the Places sidebar by default.

12. Thanos wrote,

    Looks cool, Except from the up arrow removal. This is the button I use most in nautilus

13. Dread Knight wrote,

    This looks awesome!

    I always considered nautilus’s GUI fucking sucks, especially compared to Dolphin, which is my favorite app from KDE4, damn powerful and intuitive.

    I’m using gnome-globalmenu as well recently and I hope I’ll get to use gnomenu as well soon… and that nautilus will really move into this direction, because it’s really a turn off for me when using Gnome.

    Keep up the good work!

14. Jeffrey Stedfast wrote,

    Oh God, yes. We don’t need the text labels for such obvious buttons!

    I love the cleaned up UI.

15. Vincent wrote,

    Makes me think of Thunar. Which everybody should try

16. Livio wrote,

    At least Nautilus gets some customizability.

    Wish for more.

17. Shrift wrote,

    This is great, I hate wasted screen real estate. I do agree with a previous comment though, we really don’t even need the bottom part with the free disk space info.

18. Marcus Carlson wrote,

    About the status bar; its possible to hide it via the view menu and I dont think hiding it as default would be good as we’d loose the little grip in the right corner. And keeping it also makes it more consistent with other gnome applications.
    (Lets also say I like the status bar info, especially when on low disk usage)

19. Aigars Mahinovs wrote,

    The ‘Up’ button is needed in location bar mode, so it must reappear when that is switched. Removing the location bar/button bar toggle is too much – it needs to be brought back so users can discover this functionality.

    Status bar need to be there – space information is used very often, especially the free space information. The at-a-glance information on the total size of selected files is also useful very often.

    Global menu bar is just retarded – if I have my eyes and my mouse focused on one are of my screen, why would I want to run all the way across the screen (or multiple screens) to the top left to get to the menu items ?! I have always considered that to be the worst UI decision in Mac history.

20. Aigars Mahinovs wrote,

    Also not that a lot of people that I know never use the sidebar – it wastes much more space than all you changes combined and most of its functions are either very rarely usable or are better accessible via the ‘Places’ system menu.

21. jhgjghjg wrote,

    “Global menu bar is just retarded – if I have my eyes and my mouse focused on one are of my screen, why would I want to run all the way across the screen (or multiple screens) to the top left to get to the menu items ?! I have always considered that to be the worst UI decision in Mac history.”

    Learn a little something about UI design, like Fitts law then come back and apologise for being so foolish

22. Danny wrote,

    I couldn’t do without the up arrow personally. I’m too attached to it. In Nautilus I also use the location bar, rather than the buttons bar, because I find that it’s usually easier to type to a location instead of clicking to it. Removing the switch button just adds another key combination I would have to remember. (Not a good thing imo.)

    For the record, I always turn the status bar on if it is off by default. Disk space and the number of files in a folder are often important since I copy files across hard drives and computers a lot.

23. Ben Lovell wrote,

    “Global menu bar is just retarded – if I have my eyes and my mouse focused on one are of my screen, why would I want to run all the way across the screen (or multiple screens) to the top left to get to the menu items”
    You don’t focus on an area of the screen at a time, you’re always darting your eyes around to read/watch something. Since it requires an eye movement to look up at the menu bar when it’s on a window, you’re not affecting time taken at all.

    As for moving the mouse, have you ever wondered why panels are always on the side of the screen and not floating? Surely they’d be quicker to reach if they were closer to open windows?
    The point of them being at the side of the screen is that they can be reached very fast, and with little accuracy, just by flicking the mouse. When you have to hover the mouse over the window in order to precisely pick a menu, you are wasting valuable time and effort just to choose a menu option.

24. Claude wrote,

    Awesome result! I hope to see that change included by default soon

25. Micah wrote,

    I’d have to agree with Roman. Shouldn’t it be up to the user to decide? Maybe those options are too well hidden…

26. Robert Devins wrote,

    @jhgjghjg,

    Fitts law isn’t a law, it’s a rule of thumb that is only applicable to situations where you only have one application on the screen that is in focus. If you have several applications on the screen, Fitts law falls flat since you first have to click on the application before you can fling your mouse to the top, before moving your mouse cursor back to the same application to edit your text. This is definitely *not* the use case Fitts law was meant to be applied.

27. sharkbait wrote,

    I completely agree with Oren; “Computer” should be in the places sidebar by default. It offers an easy overview of all the devices available in a separate space and putting in in the places sidebar would only use a tiny bit more space.

28. Jonathan Blackhall wrote,

    I really like it, but I really dislike the removal of the “up” arrow. It’s just part of what should be in a file browser (almost instead of back/fwd) imo. I use the “text-based location bar” not the “button location bar”, so that seems like it would make going up a level a pain in the ass.

29. Gustavo Noronha wrote,

    The back/up/etc buttons have labels because GNOME is setup to show them. Disrespecting the settings is what Firefox does, and this brokeness should not propagate throughout the desktop.

    Ubuntu should rather go back to spatial nautilus and enhance it where needed, instead of breaking the browser mode even more.

30. hb wrote,

    Personally, I don’t like it at all.

    As several other people already noted, the majority of wasted screen estate is due to your own settings (toolbar items with text), which Nautilus is of course supposed to follow.

    The location bar can not be compared to the URL in a browser. That’s what people use to navigate around, not simply to clear and write something new into it. Therefore, it needs to have more horizontal space available.

    A better space-saver here would maybe be a clickable text widget instead of separate buttons, as Dolphin does it. Still, it should have as much horizontal space available as possible.

    The up button is absolutely useful functionality (at least for me, but judging from the comments, I am not alone).

    The same applies for the menu bar.

    The only thing that somehow seems useful to me is the combined reload/stop button.

31. Mukund Sivaraman wrote,

    Please be careful when removing UI controls which are already available, in the name of simplification.

    I run Nautilus with no side pane, browser windows by default, and my desktop is not ~/Desktop but my home directory. The desktop also doesn’t show various special icons such as Computer.

    1. That computer icon in nautilus windows is very useful to someone who regularly copies stuff among USB disks and computer disks. In my case, with no panel and no menu in nautilus windows (by your new UI look), how are you supposed to browse to the computer?

    2. I hope all these changes can be configured to be off.

32. Mukund Sivaraman wrote,

    I suppose I could get to using the panel menu. Still, having that computer icon in a nautilus browser window is damn convenient when you’re browsing around the filesystem. You should allow it to be configured at least.

33. Very nice! wrote,

    About time that somebody gave the Nautilus GUI some much needed love!

    Keep up the good work!

34. iain wrote,

    The toolbar editor should be using the one from epiphany. I think its in libegg

35. oliver wrote,

    My opinion:
    - the combined reload/stop button is fine
    - putting location bar next to buttons is ok I suppose, but not sure how it behaves on smaller screens
    - removing the label texts is inconsistent with the global “show labels” setting… If you have enough screen space and aren’t familiar with computers, having labels is quite nice I think
    - is the Home Folder icon really needed as toolbar button? It’s already reachable in the side bar
    - I can live without the Up button because I’ve got used to the breadcrumb navigation; but maybe the breadcrumbs could be improved to make it easier to type a path there? Something like a combination of breadcrumb buttons and edit text field ? That might make the Up button really redundant, even for people who want a path field

36. Pieter wrote,

    Looks good.
    I really hope something like this will become mainstream

    I hope the “import” bars are also gone now?

    Those bars are shown when an inserted media has pictures (import in gthumb/f-spot bar) of music files (import in rhytmbox bar) and CAN’t be disabled. These reduce the available screen real estate even further.

37. Kris Thomsen wrote,

    Hi!

    I agree, that Nautilus need some basical love, but not in the way it’s shown here.
    The GNOME HIG says that there should be labels under icons (like in all other GNOME apps – Firefox isn’t a GNOME app, and don’t have labels. Epiphany has.)
    I think you’re right about removing some of the icons – f.ex the “Home” and “Computer” when they already are in the side pane.
    But anyway, the labels should still be under icons

    // Kris

38. ulrik wrote,

    Spatial mode by default and global menu bar solves this quite easily. Feels like the future and the past at the same time; sanity!

39. Rob J. Caskey wrote,

    No mercy! Remove home as well and change the search button into a search field w/ whatever SexyIconEntry is called these days.

40. Tom wrote,

    +1 for not killing the text on the icons. Text on icons is useful. Every time I sit down at a Windows machine I curse the designer who made me “scrub” all the icons to figure out what they do. Writing a comment on this very blog, I curse the designer who got rid of the labels for “name”, “email” and “homepage” — it took me a bit to figure out what the icons meant after realizing that on this webpage “scrubbing” didn’t work (no tooltips).

    I recognize that maybe forward/back/reload are common enough now not to need text, but surely what’s obvious to me is not obvious to another user. Also, with monitors growing, most desktop users can spare a little space for a little clarity (and for bigger targets for the mouse). For netbook users, of course you’d want text-under-icons turned off, but that’s a global setting for a reason.

    The reason you need “Home” and “Computer” is that the side-pane is optional and even when it is used it has a lot of functionality other than “Places” — most usefully, I often turn on the side pane when I want to use it for “Tree” view.

    For things that users need all the time (like “Computer” for finding removable media and “Home” for getting back to their starting point), I don’t think there’s much harm in redundancy.

41. sulfide wrote,

    ahh i like it!

42. Matthew Holloway wrote,

    I always thought that the address bar part of nautilus should behave like this,

    http://holloway.co.nz/gnome-nautilus/

43. Dylan McCall wrote,

    Nice! Looks like progress. However, seeing Nautilus here take toolbar labels upon itself is upsetting.

    As mentioned, this can be (and should be) configured globally. This type of configuration is one of the major strengths of gtk+ and gnome.

    To get this kind of effect properly, without killing kittens, Ubuntu’s default toolbar button labels could be changed to horizontal. Then, only buttong marked as “important” get labels, which is really nice and tidy.

    I may miss the zoom buttons. (The + and – with zoom level in the middle). Can text entry with the breadcrumb bar be toggled by clicking the whitespace around it?

44. Dylan McCall wrote,

    Nice! Looks like progress. However, seeing Nautilus here take toolbar labels upon itself is upsetting.

    As mentioned, this can be (and should be) configured globally. This type of configuration is one of the major strengths of gtk+ and gnome.

    To get this kind of effect properly, without killing kittens, Ubuntu’s default toolbar button labels could be changed to horizontal. Then, only buttong marked as “important” get labels, which is really nice and tidy.

    I may miss the zoom buttons. (The + and – with zoom level in the middle). Can text entry with the breadcrumb bar be toggled by clicking the whitespace around it?

    No reason to have a home button, indeed; that’s dealt with in the sidebar, so totally redundant.

45. Aigars Mahinovs wrote,

    > jhgjghjg

    I know very well what Fitts law is, the problem is that it is useless in case of multiple windows (as mentioned before) or if you need to get back to the window. And it is even worse for dealing with menus, because they drop down.

    It is great that I can disregard the vertical component while getting my mouse cursor to the menu. It is not great that I have to move my eye focus from one side on my large 1080p monitor to the top left corner of another 1080p monitor. It is not great that after I click on the menu, I still need to position my mouse *exactly* on the sub-menu items and the sub-sub-menu items. And then when this whole thing is done I need to travel with my mouse and focus all the way back to my original window.

    It is a horrible design.

    As an additional fun exercise, try working out how to implement global menu with focus-follows-mouse.

46. Stu wrote,

    In windows explorer I save space in a similar way -

    Just having half the menubar (I don’t really ever go into help), then some icons followed by the addressbar

    File Edit View >> [icon][icon][icon]
    [address bar... ]

    We should try and save vertical space where possible – it’s the most precious and yet we use it up the most – it would make more sense for current uis to use portrait oriented screens.

47. grigio wrote,

    I like it. It’s a Thunar-clone

48. nona wrote,

    @Matthew Holloway

    I really like that kind of widget for breadcrumb/location bar unification. Could be a bit prettier, but I’d use it even in epiphany or the file selector widget. Nice one.

49. Andrés G. Aragoneses wrote,

    My 2cents:
    * +1 on the comments about defaulting the non-text buttons with a new default setting instead of with a patch.
    * CTRL+L? No, for god’s shake. Let another non-key-shortcut method exist, such as double-click on the the bar.
    * Don’t default to no-status-bar please, a lot of people use it.

    The rest are good ideas, escpecially the one about combining Stop+Reload.

50. Dave wrote,

    If screen real estate is important to you:

    http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

51. Dizzy wrote,

    Toolbar editor? What happened to Gnome’s “Just works” philosophy?

52. Charles wrote,

    There needs to be a wrench icon to access a “File” menu, and an “Edit” icon to edit manually the path to the current directory. Otherwise, nice job.

53. Ross Peoples wrote,

    This looks totally better. I’ve been complaining about how much space the toolbar takes up for a long time now. It definitely looks more Mac-ish (a good thing). Though I regularly switch back and forth to the location bar, and it would be nice to have an option to being that button back.

    Probably the best approach for usability would be to make things as simple as possible by default (like pictured above) and give the option to add more complexity later.

54. RagePie wrote,

    That is a very nice improvement. Too bad it isn’t going upstream.

55. Prudhvi wrote,

    Do we even need the title bar?. It would be lot more simpler if we get rid of the title bar. Something like the Google Chrome browser

56. Bob Soap wrote,

    Now if only we could convince them that big icons should be accessibility feature vision-impaired users.

    Making “Compact View” the default for the rest of us.

57. Christoph Shipley wrote,

    This works well on normal desktops, but would be unusable on netbooks. And of course YMMV if you’re not using gnome-globalmenu. Still, this view is usually what I try to get out of Firefox.

58. David wrote,

    I like how that’s looking. About 18 months ago I switched to Ubuntu, and it’s always bugged me how Nautilus just feels clunkier than Explorer.

59. Francisco wrote,

    We need this!

60. Sven Neumann wrote,

    IMO the Up button is useful enough to stay. Sure, it is doubled by the path bar, but I still believe it is more convenient to provide the users the button they are looking for. In particular because it doesn’t move, so I can go Up, Up, Up by clicking in the same spot.

61. Ciprian Mustiata wrote,

    Not such a big gain but is a step in right direction. If I will have the global menu, and I set: text beside icons or only icons, you win only a row of tools. Which is not as big as it seems. In rest can be setup from fonts to get some space and theme tweaking.

    Isn’t so?

    Anyway, is great to make it with less clutter and this should be the tendency all over gnome applications which are in themselfs minimalist.

62. Mangar wrote,

    1. when using breadcrumbs, there’s no need for the navigation buttons.
    2. refresh button should be unnecessary.
    3. the home button replicates functionality on the sidebar, can be removed.
    4. the search functionality is broken. in any case, it’s better to have a searchbar (like firefox).
    5. the zoom buttons can be moved to the status bar, a-la Dolphin

    it was a fairly popular idea in the brainstorm, unfortunately, the screenshot got lost.

    http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5765/

    In any case, the best explorer-style file manager i’ve ever used is cocoatech’s pathfinder:
    http://www.cocoatech.com/
    http://www.macuser.co.uk/reviews/237987/path-finder-5.html#

63. Simon wrote,

    Not sure about the removal of the ‘Up’ button – I find that a *lot* more useful for navigating a tree structure than the browser-style forward/back buttons. Although I suppose I’d get used to using the location buttons…

    Regarding text labels in the toolbar, is that done by turning off labels globally (in the Gnome control panel), or is it something done specially for Nautilus?

64. Matthew Holloway wrote,

    Why aren’t the comments displaying in this blog? Even the RSS comment feed’s permalinks are broken.

65. David wrote,

    Sorry, Matthew, I had turned them off when template hacking. They should be on again.

66. orlando wrote,

    Good ! now the next point: get the same performance of other efficient file browsers, for example: Thunar.

    I have notably bad performance in Nautilus when browsing samba shares and directories with a large number of files.

    The fix:

    I did a

    sudo apt-get install thunar

    tried to browse the same locations ( samba shares and directories with large number of files, for example /usr/bin ) and got a notably better perfomance.

    The same goes to gtkfiledialog() used in Thundebird and Firefox; i replaced theme with the native file chooser.

67. Leonardo Fontenelle wrote,

    I don’t like toolbar labels either, but Nautilus is a core GNOME comopent and should follow the GNOME settings. The question is, why does GNOME defaults to text under icons? The menus must remain there; removing them to a global menu is a GNOME-wise decision, not a Nautilus decision.

    I agree the Nautilus status bar is one of the most useful status bars, and it should be left there by default.

    On the other hand, I really enjoyed shrinking the toolbar to one line, even if the up button and the location button should probably come back.

68. aboSamoor wrote,

    I added the ppa to my karmic, and i did not get any update, it is out dated !

69. Chris wrote,

    Wayyyy better. I also like the idea of removing the title bar – it doesn’t tell me any other valuable information that the breadcrumbs don’t already tell me.

70. james wrote,

    The reason Nautilus looks the way it does is because it is consistent with the rest of GNOME. Nautilus isn’t the only app that follows these UI guidelines. You’ve essentially just * hidden icon text labels (preference) * moved navbar onto end of toolbar (probably not possible currently in Nautilus prefs). I usually just do View -> Hide Toolbar in the apps I use.

    This isn’t a Nautilus problem in my opinion, it’s a problem with all GNOME/GTK apps that follow the UI guidelines.

    All you need is a Customer Toolbar option, and anyone could achieve this look if they wanted too.

    Mac OS X’s Finder has a Customer Toolbar option. So while it ships sparse, you can add more too it.

    Seems like maybe there needs to also be a way for distributions to set defaults for toolbars on an application by application basis. Maybe there already is?

71. Andrea R wrote,

    Would be better to have the path on the left and the buttons on the right.

72. Matthew Holloway wrote,

    Actually the sidebar of “Places” is basically a list of bookmarks so i’d call it that and add a button to the toolbar for hiding/revealing that.

    There are other things that can appear in the sidebar like “File Information” (what’s wrong with properties or status bar), “notes” (does anyone use that?), “Emblems” (ditto), “History” (you’ve already got forward and back), and “Tree” which could be integrated into the “View” dropdown.

    OSX or Cocoatech’s pathfinder are best at expressing themselves though, I think.

73. Jamei wrote,

    If you put the search button on the right of the location buttons, it will be more consistent with web browsers.

    One thing that annoys me with the status bar in nautilus is if you are trying to find the file size of a file with a long name – it always puts the size after the name, which is pushed offscreen. Plz fix this.
    The order could be changed “12MB selected: ‘long file name’, it could just put “1 file selected”, or the name could be cut off before the edge of the window like “long file na… (12MB)”.

74. Austin B. wrote,

    On the status bar: 1 of 24 files. 145 GB Avaiilable.

    On the toolbar:
    I completely aggree on needing thee ability to choose small icons/icons and with/without text. If this is against the Gnome HIG, then they are broken, and ignorable.

    Also, why does the path bar have to have such thick icons? Why not just little breadcrumbs? Why cant the back and forward buttons respond to click-and-hold rather than have separate down arrow things.

    And, I think using better type would allow the text to get a bit smaller AND be more readable. In fact, I think if the type were tweaked, it would look pretty great with your changes. Droid sans with good smoothing is nice.

    just my two cents

    Also +1 for using global menu bar, and for giving users the choice.

75. Garrett LeSage wrote,

    Hi David,

    A few of us UX people actually talked about improving Nautilus at an impromptu meeting at GCDS. (You weren’t around at the time, else we would’ve pulled you into the discussion as well.)

    It’s great that you have the same goals and reached many of the same conclusions. We have a few not shown here (like what to do about the reload and home buttons), and I’d like to discuss all of these with you somehow (through IRC, IM, email, etc.)

    We also made some wireframe mockups (however, they’re really rough and only aid the discussion — they don’t “tell the story” themselves).

    It would be wonderful to get as many simplifying changes as possible upstream. (:

76. sorpigal wrote,

    @Matthew Holloway

    That is brilliantly perfect. +1 to this, with the added note that keyboard shortcuts are not sufficiently discoverable for most users. Don’t rely on them for basic features (I’m looking at you, file dialog).

    Also:

    Down arrows on back/forward are needed for discoverability. Also being able to click and hold the button would be good.

    Relying on the left hand pane for functionality is not good. Sane people have a tree there, some people have it off altogether.

    The Up button is a critical feature, a staple of filesystem navigation (in the form of ..) since the beginning of GUIs. Removing it is unwise.

    GNOME fans will object, but how about having some options? I have no problem with having no text on the buttons, but I turn it off anyway. You could have a “Disregard global icon label settings and never show icon labels” option in Nautilus. Silently ignoring global settings without giving the user any recourse is impolite at best.

77. Nottatroll wrote,

    The biggest critisism of Linux is the insistence on an outdated looking 1990’s GUI. When will our fav desktop get a makeover BY DEFAULT?

78. frustphil wrote,

    Unlike firefox, I think the icons are too close to each other.

79. james wrote,

    What I would love to see is a Customize Toolbar dialog (not a Customer Toolbar as I wrote previously)!

    I think the proposal is a definite improvement.

    If GNOME defaults to text under icons, would Nautilus respect that (not saying I like that default)?

    My only other feedback on your proposal:
    - A search input box would be nice
    - It would be cool to see the breadcrumb nav bar within the actual white window at the top, instead of in the toolbar along with a redesign of how it looks… which might not be easy This would free up a lot of space in the main toolbar.
    - It would also be nice to get rid of the Reload button and just assume it should always “just work”.

    Keep up the good work. GNOME rocks. I just think it needs continued polish of it’s appearance.

80. Chetan wrote,

    Nice! Since no one customization works for all users, why not make them like Firefox’s toolbar, where users can decide what they prefer to have and what they could shed—based on their personal preference.

81. imtiaz wrote,

    those buttons and menu items in nautilus are absolutely unnecessary. the new screen shots look much much better. hopefully the nautilus understands this and integrate the design.

82. tvst wrote,

    In a similar vein, here’s an old mockup of mine:

    http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9049/nautilusy.png

83. Mohan wrote,

    That looks awesome, and hopefully will in Karmic. Kudos for making Nautilus not look like it was made in the 1990s.

84. John Kerns, Jr. wrote,

    Please tell me why improvements like this one are rejected upstream. Nautilus has looked the same as it does now for years..are the maintainers making any improvements of their own like this?

85. David wrote,

    John, the patch was just a quick hack to test some of these changes out. While I am very interested in updating Nautilus, we need to do it carefully, in cooperation with the Nautilus developers (it’s their baby), and in a sustainable manner (the code needs to be pristine, documented, tested).

86. Chad Dweller wrote,

    I actually use the home/computer buttons from time-to-time. I think that if we had the toolbar customization like Evince have, that would be a nice solution.

    A good patch for nautilus would be to add a “small icons” checkbox in the customize toolbar window that only applies to nautilus’ toolbar icons.

87. Aigars Mahinovs wrote,

    Basically, reading back the comments, this mockup managed to remove a ton of features that people actually use and at the same time save less space than just removing the sidebar. FAIL.

88. Me wrote,

    Pfft… Real men use midnight commander

89. n wrote,

    How about using dockable dialog instead of sidebar?
    I like it.

90. devolute wrote,

    I think the idea is good, but I think you’ve gone to far. Can we find a happy medium?

91. aboSamoor wrote,

    I downloaded the latest packages [Version: 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu3~oloc2] from the repository, and I did not get any change ?

92. Ferk wrote,

    The “Up arrow” functionality can be performed by just hitting the backspace key.

    In fact I’d rather have a better keyboard navigation for nautilus (I still can’t unmount removable drives without using the mouse), with proper and comfortable keybindings you can completely remove toolbars.

93. seifsallam wrote,

    i was thinking why is the side bar on the right, its not used that much if used at all so maybe we can try put it on the side and see how it works

    From Preview

94. seifsallam wrote,

    what i meant is, instead of putting on the left; maybe we can try putting it on the right

    http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EEEmbY6n_LzT01jCeuQlVA?feat=directlink

    also instead of just removing the menu bar maybe you can try adding a button like Firefox-4.0 mockups (Page, Tools) or Google Chrome (Page, Wrench)

95. Dusten Barker wrote,

    Does anyone have the link to the actual patch? I’d like to patch a newer version of nautilus.

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1. This note’s for you » Blog Archive » How I make my Ubuntu more beautiful and usable on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:22 am

   [...] new logout menu, but what is that with the new notifications? It does not help me with anything. Or this one: yes there is a problem, because firefox is not consistent with the rest of the desktop, but the [...]

2. Nautilus, streamlined | Linuxart on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 6:05 am

   [...] saw David’s recent blog post on a simplified Nautilus and decided to skip past gnome-shell (for now) and produce something that should hopefully benefit [...]

3. Garrett LeSage: Nautilus, streamlined | Full-Linux.com on Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:04 pm

   [...] saw David’s recent blog post on a simplified Nautilus and decided to skip past gnome-shell (for now) and produce something that should hopefully benefit [...]

4. Yet another Linux Blog » Blog Archive » Gloobus Preview und ein zurechtgestutzter Dateimanager on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4:48 pm

   [...] bin ich im Zuge meiner Recherchen zu Gloobus auch auf “Nautilus, Simplified” gestoßen, einem Nautilus, dessen Menüs auf das Wesentliche zurechtgestutzt sind. Und da [...]