Looking for a Nautilus alternative - under Gnome

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Jan 8 13:20:55 UTC 2014


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On 01/08/2014 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am not looking at switching from Gnome to another desktop
> environment, but the removal of the tree view from Nautilus has
> hamstrung it for drag-n-drop. I have worked with it for a couple
> weeks now, and there are a number of DnD operations I do that just
> don't work.  In some cases, between two Nautilus windows I can kind
> of live with how DnD functions without tree view, but even that is
> hit and miss (constant changing of focus to where you are dropping,
> for example of bad behaviour).
> 
> On the Gnome list i was told tree view was deprecated.  No plugins,
> and I don't know how to even begin writing one.  BTW, I DO turn on
> 'Navigate folders in a tree' view, but that is only half of tree
> view.
> 
> So what alternative is there to Nautilus.  I went searching via
> yumex, I did not see any obvious other file browser.  Seems there
> use to be a number of them?
> 
> 

Try 'nemo', it's a fork of Nautilus used in the Cinnamon desktop. IIRC
it still has the tree view.
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