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

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

Have you considered Caja? I believe version 1.12 will be in repo, built
with GTK2. 

On 4/22/2016 at 3:35 PM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>--
>Len Ovens
>www.ovenwerks.net
>
>
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