Looking for a Nautilus alternative - under Gnome

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/08/2014 08:20 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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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.

Yes it does!  Thanks for the pointer.  Will work with it now, and see 
how it goes.  Will have to see if I can tweak Gnome so that when I 
insert a USB drive, it starts Nemo rather than Nautilus.