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A Nautilus Sucks Donkeyballs Linux Rant (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nautilus, the Gnome file assistant manager, sucks utter donkeyballs. Let us make an unordered list of the ways:

If the underlying filesystem changes, say a copy operation, the file manager view does not update without a manual refresh by CTL+R. This leaves the view in a stale state, presenting false file information to the user, who might never know until they do something bad. This is a showstopper bug that's been hanging around since forever.
Batch rename. Good luck trying to rename a series of files ordered sequentially by number, if the number happens to start with any number other than one. A sequence from 2 to x is impossible to batch rename. Because regex in sed never worked either. No, wait. It's always worked! For like, 50 years.
Why, when moving a collection of files or a directory within the same filesystem, does it actually perform a copy and delete operation, taking cpu and time, when the inode location could just be updated like mv does?
Thumbnails? Why do they take longer to generate for images and video than than the totality of the existence of the universe?

Nautilus is an unusable mess. If command line file utils were this bad, we'd never be able to reliably store and manipulate files. Who in their right mind actually uses this junk?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also find it incredible, that there's no GUI button to edit the path. You have to just kind of know that Ctrl+L does that...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I don't have any of OP's issues, but this one! I hate it! Especially on the Steam Deck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, it's documented on the second tab of options in an unrelated dialog box, so anyone who needs it should know where to find it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the same in Dolphin (Plasma's file browser). And it's the same hotkey!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

In Dolphin, you can click to the right of the path, like you would in a textbox.

I admit, it's not the most intuitive method either, but when you hover your mouse there, it does change over to a text editing cursor, shows a caret-like line to the right of the path and will eventually throw up a tooltip that you can "Click to Edit Location"...