Extra Pane in Nautilus

[Colin Law]

On 29 March 2013 22:12, Greg Williams <mttbrnsmls at outlook.com> wrote:
> Why won't the Ubuntu-Developers switch to the Marlin File-Browser? Why are
> they continuing to use Nautilus with such a weakening feature base?

I understand that the problem is that Nautilus also handles the
desktop and other stuff.  It is not just the file manager.  There is
nothing to stop you installing Marlin of course.  When I tried it,
however, it seemed rather deficient in some areas.  I submitted some
bugs but there has been little response.  There does not seem to be a
lot of activity on the source.

Colin

>
> I have no use for Nautilus if it doesn't support the Extra Pane. This is one
> of the most used features of Nautilus by my friends and me. It's one of the
> "linux things" that pulled me away from using Windows and Windows Explorer.
> I like Gnome 3x but some of the decision those developers make are really
> poorly thought out.
>
> So why not switch to Marlin or something else that supports Extra Pane
> feature? Anybody know why this switch hasn't already been set in stone?
>
>> From: clanlaw at googlemail.com
>> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:55:08 +0000
>> Subject: Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus
>> To: mttbrnsmls at outlook.com
>> CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>>
>> On 29 March 2013 19:42, Greg Williams <mttbrnsmls at outlook.com> wrote:
>> > Has there been any discussion about improving the user-interaction with
>> > the
>> > "Extra Pane" feature in Nautilus?
>> >
>> > I'm using 12.04 and make use of the Extra Pane feature a lot. A problem
>> > with
>> > it though is that there is not clear communication/indication about
>> > which
>> > pane is active (ie. which pane the user's keyboard input is going to
>> > affect). I think some improvements need to be made to this element of
>> > the
>> > design of it. Is this on any of the developers' radar for improvement?
>>
>> Unfortunately the Gnome developers have decided to completely remove
>> the Extra Pane feature from Nautilus, along with other useful stuff.
>> Enjoy it while you can in 12.04 as if/when you upgrade to 13.04 or
>> above you will lose it completely :(
>> Note that this is not something that the Ubuntu developers have any
>> control over, as far as I am aware.
>>
>> Colin