Nautilus acting up

[Liam Proven]

On 6 December 2016 at 12:33, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> By default Nemo does capture the desktop.

I have experimented a little and as far as I can see you are right.
Well spotted!

I do not know why special instructions are given on multiple pages to
configure Nemo to manage the desktop, then.

> FWIW there's another fork of GNOME's file manager named caja.

That is true, but it's a component of Maté -- i.e. it's a fork of the
GNOME 2 version of Nautilus, and so based on Gtk2, not of the GNOME 3
version. I do not know for sure but I don't think it can be used to
manage the Unity/Cinnamon/GNOME Shell desktop.

However, Maté is still built against Gtk2. The project is moving to
Gtk3 but the versions incorporated in Ubuntu and Mint are still based
on Gtk2.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/09/mate-desktop-1-6-released

Despite what that story says, it is not all-Gtk3 even in the current
builds according to the Maté project website:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:gtk3

Xfce is moving to Gtk3 as well and version 4.14 will be all-Gtk3:

http://winaero.com/blog/xfce-4-14-will-be-gtk3-based/

I think this is a very positive move. At the moment, there are
multiple forks of most of the whole GNOME suite.

* Maté is still maintaining GNOME 2 versions of everything: Nautilus,
GEdit, ImageViewer, Calculator, the whole suite.
* GNOME 3 has the "official" mainline current versions.
* Unity has some out-of-date versions (to keep full menus, toolbars
etc. -- e.g. GEdit) and some minor forks (e.g. their own branch of
GNOME 3 Nautilus with a menu bar rather than one "Files" menu)
* Cinnamon has forked Nautilus (Nemo), Mutter (Muffin) and some other
components.

Once they are all based off the same toolkit, there is room for some
reconciliation. For instance if the Maté project adopted the mainline
GNOME accessory apps, it would save them a lot of work, freeing
manpower for development of the core desktop, panels, menus etc.

I would very much like for Ubuntu to adopt Nemo, but as I understand
it, Ubuntu does not like Mint (which is a partial fork of Ubuntu) so
will not take any Mint code. This is not official but based on
observations.

However, Maté is an independent project and Ubuntu officially supports
it. There's an official Remix and so on.

So conceivably Ubuntu could drop its Nautilus fork and switch to Gtk 3
Caja or something like that.




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