nautilus search function/ how about Nemo?

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

Lots of people are ditching Nautilus, the Mint folks called what GNOME did to it a "catastrophe" and forked the Nautilus 3.4 code, calling it Nemo  and taking over mantainance of it. That's what I am using now. If Ubuntu or US uses what GNOME is now shipping in any finished release, I  suspect that will be seriously regretted as online commentators hammer the distro. If Thunat falls short, Nemo works great, doesn't require all of  Cinnamon to use, and is being kept compatable with current libraries. 

I think all the mainline distros are going to have do decide if they are for desktops or tablets, or maybe have a version for each. Obviously a media production OS like Ubuntustudio is not going to be installed on mostly desktops,  some laptops, and very few tablets.  The only reason I could ever see it going on a tablet would be to allow the exact same OS on a big production server and a tablet taken out in the field, same as why I have the same OS on desktop and netbook. Never had a tableet myself and don't plan to.


On 12/19/2012 at 9:52 AM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>On Mon, December 17, 2012 8:55 am, Scott Lavender wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> 
>wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried the search function in nautilus/files in 
>13.04? I don't
>>> seem to be able to find anything with it... even things I know 
>are
>>> there.
>
>> i haven't tested any search on 13.04 yet, but it was catfish 
>that was the
>> file finder previously.
>>
>Well two things... The search function in Nautilus seems to have 
>been
>dumbed down. It does about the same as thunar does if you start 
>typing a
>file name (not quite). It is not a good search utility. 
>Ubuntustudio now
>needs a search utility. For the terminal we already have mlocate 
>which
>also calls it self locate. As an aside, this is another of those 
>things
>that runs itself via cron once a day that may be the reason for an 
>odd
>xrun... one more reason to turn cron off while recording...
>
>Anyway, there seems to be two GUIs for searching, catfish and
>gnome-search-tool. catfish was part of UStudio in 11.10 and is the 
>tool of
>choice in Xubuntu. However, I installed it in studio 13.04 and it 
>doesn't
>run. I have asked for help in #xubuntu-devel and they are looking 
>into it
>as it would effect them too (they need to test it in their own 
>ISO). In
>other words, I think it would be ready for release. Gnome-search-
>tool
>works fine and seems to do what nautilus used to do.
>
>Nautilus: has changed, now called "files" and the GUI is a lot like
>chromium. Nautilus now seems to offer a lot less than in the past 
>and
>there is a learning curve as the top menu bar is gone.
>
>Thunar: I have been using Thunar as my default file manager on the 
>13.04
>machine (test bed) and have not had any crashes. I have done 
>things that
>always crashed it before without problem. There has not been 
>anything
>Thunar wouldn't do for me that I could still do with nautilus.
>
>I would like to see some more people try out the daily ISO and 
>report
>their findings on these two file managers. Perhaps we can now drop
>nautilus.
>
>Deciding on a search utility should wait till catfish is fixed.
>
>Len
>
>
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