If all the really unnecessary duplication eats a lot of screen space and confuses new users then it should go. I personally prefer Thunar, but since it’s not possible to integrate Thunar into GNOMe without losing Nautilus’ desktop, I just stick to Nautilus (at best you can have Thunar open using the Places menu otherwise you must replace the Nautilus desktop with Xfce’s). I’m hoping that a redesign of Nautilus is high upon the GNOME developers’ agendas. Izo argues, correctly so in my opinion, that Zeitgeist should be integrated into Nautilus, eliminating the need for GNOME Journal. Currently, you access Zeitgeist mostly through GNOME Journal, which presents the data collected by Zeitgeist in a usable way.
The interesting part here is that Izo took it a step further, and also thought about Zeitgeist integration when designing his new Nautilus. Note, though, that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The funny thing is, though, that every Nautilus mockup I’ve seen more or less comes down to “make it like the Finder”, and the most recent one, by Ian ‘Izo’ Cylkowski, is no exception. And so on.īy carefully redesigning Nautilus’ interface, you can save a tremendous amount of screen space. The home button is useless too use the sidebar. The reload button, while useful in some cases, takes up too much space compared to its importance. Because of the breadcrumb bar, the up button is duplicate. The issue has been raised a number of times already, but a perusal through the various interface widgets in a default Nautilus window reveals numerous widgets that duplicate functionality. There’s a lot of duplicate functionality and wasted space, and especially in the light of the popularity of netbooks, that’s something you don’t want.īelow is a screenshot of my Nautilus. It fulfils its intended roles quite well, but the user interface could certainly use a designer’s touch. I’m strongly in the Nautilus-could-use-a-makeover camp.
Recently, it has become apparent to many that Nautilus could use a make-over. Do we go with a spatial or a navigational Nautilus? Should we replace the location bar with a breadcrumb bar? And now, it’s time to move on. It’s been with us for a long time now, and it has certainly been at the centre of a number of controversies. Ah, Nautilus, GNOME’s default file manager.
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