[ubuntu-studio-devel] Nautilus always resets itself to icon-view upon, closing

[Len Ovens]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Thomas Pfundt wrote:

> @ Len: Just a quick remark on the "gear wheel" that you suggested using:
> I do not see a "gear wheel" anywhere when I install Nautilus on Ubuntu
> Studio 15.10 or 16.04. There is a menu toggle button, but it only gives
> options related to the currently viewed folder. Normally there should be
> a way of entering the preferences from the file manager's interface, but
> I see no possibility to access it, because the button layout is
> different from Unity and the Xfce window decorator prevents targeting
> the menu bar, I believe. I haven't tested the other mentioned file
> managers, yet.

Yes I can confirm that nautilus has become less useful than in 14.04 
(even) I guess it must be a gnome application where removing 
functionallity is considered progress.

So nautilus is effectively broken/non-standard/not DE-agnostic/not 
recomended for xfce.

I can also confirm that thunar fails for me after about 4 file renames.

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Len Ovens
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