[ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties

[Neil Oosthuizen]

On 06/02/2012 02:58 AM, Robin Bownes wrote:
>
>
> On 06/01/2012 11:57 PM, Gustav H Meyer wrote:
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> On 01/06/2012 00:54, Robin Bownes wrote:
>>> Before my latest update to 12.04, I used the Notes tab under file
>>> properties to record quite a bit of information regarding printing
>>> sizes, prices,&  media for many of my photo files the upgrade however, I
>>> notice that the Notes tab no longer appears in file properties.
>>>
>>> I would really like to get that information back, and continue to be
>>> able to use this useful feature. Has this been removed in the new
>>> version, or is it just not showing? If the latter, then how can I get it
>>> to show again?
>> You may find an answer to your issue at the following link:
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/90853/file-notes-tab-gone-in-nautilus-3-2-1
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gustav H Meyer
>
> Thanks for the link Gustav, but if I understand that correctly, it 
> basically just says "we scrapped it - tough". Other than being 
> extremely pissed off with that kind of thinking and action, which in 
> this case has lost me a lot of valuable information, which directly 
> impacts my livelihood, I'm not really sure what to do with this 
> information. I'm looking at probably about a week of really hard, 
> pretty much full-time graft to redo all that I've lost.
> (Co-incidentally, the link states that this feature was already gone 
> in 11.10, but this is not the case, as I was still using it until my 
> upgrade to 12.04)
>
> Here are some questions for the Ubuntu boffins that I think really 
> need to be answered:
>
>  1. From what I can gather (from the above-mentioned link), this is a
>     Gnome dev decision. If Ubuntu is no longer using Gnome, but rather
>     Unity, why is this effecting us?
>  2. How can such a decision, that can negatively impact potentially
>     millions of people be made and executed in this manner?
>  3. How can I rely on using Ubuntu if this kind of thing has already
>     happened, and can therefore happen again at any time in the
>     future? How do I know which features I can safely use, and which I
>     can't?
>
> This kind of uncertainty could very well be a deal-breaker in terms of 
> using open source software. Microsoft and Apple may well suck in some 
> ways, but in all the years that I sold, trained, and supported 
> Microsoft applications, they never did something like this.
>
> Signed: Seriously-Pissed-Off-Robin
>
>
>
Hi Robin,

I can understand your frustration :(

Ubuntu is still a Gnome based distro, it is indeed using Gnome 3... the 
difference is that rather than using Gnome-shell it is using Unity as 
the interface you see and interact with.

Lots of issues that people have with Ubuntu stems from Gnome and not 
from things like Unity or other decisions made my Canonical etc.

I don't have an easy fix or answer to your dilemma about open source...


Neil
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