New Nautilus

[MadRedHatter]

how does everyone like the new nautilus?
yes
no
give it more time

[MadRedHatter]

I think it needs more time starting to get used to it

[ewdi]

i like it alright, do you feel it a bit sluggish?

[Ug]

I don't use it. I'm a KDE man.

[jgeorgeson]

I hate it, and I can't find a way to make the old browse mode the default action, any help on that would be appreciated.

[rpatters]

no

I don't like having so many windows open! I use the browse mode from the context menu. I would like to see and option to set browse as the default mode.

[bskahan]

Originally posted by jgeorgeson
I hate it, and I can't find a way to make the old browse mode the default action, any help on that would be appreciated.

There's no way to globally make it the default. However, nautilus --browser does use the old navigational view. You can edit the desktop icons to reflect this command if you really hate the spacial view.

For a hack. you might alias nautilus='nautilus --browser' in your shell. don't know if that would work.

I, for one, welcome our new objective overlords.

Actually I like the objective nautilus, my one issue with it is actually with metacity. Spatial view is nice until a new window opens on the opposite side of a 3200x1200 desktop. The whole idea works when the windows tile nicely -- not when they go for "best fit". Could Devil's Pie fix that behavior?

[MadRedHatter]

or right click on the folder and hit browse folder...
I donno it reminds me of the old mac days.
I do agree they should have a setting where you can set the defalt to browse if you want to
I'm getting used to it
Haven't notice a speed difference tho

[bskahan]

Originally posted by MadRedHatter

Haven't notice a speed difference tho

I actually think there's a huge speedup. Even for the navigational view.

[MadRedHatter]

yeah I can't exactly tell because this is a new machine I'm testing on (AMD64) its already a fast machine

[mhelios]

Well I chose give it time. I feel there are many good aspects to it. For example the Open File dialogs that appear when you want to open a file in a GNOME application is much more functional. Better layout of search paths. Right-clicking the desktop lets you create a document finally!
But overall, I prefer the old browser view like many others.

[dpw2atox]

correction as of nautilus 2.5.8 there is a way to make it globally use browser mode only. In gconf under the apps/nautilus section there is a spot where you can select browser only mode.

[pzgren]

Originally posted by jgeorgeson
I hate it, and I can't find a way to make the old browse mode the default action, any help on that would be appreciated.

Fire up gconf-editor:

/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser

Maybe you need to make this as an new key.

Marcus