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...
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I don't have any of OP's issues, but this one! I hate it! Especially on the Steam Deck
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.
Come to the dark side, KDE has Dolphin and it swims faster than any gnome could.
You can just install Dolphin on GNOME, you don't have to go the whole way.
You might as well go the whole way for desktop supremacy! ;)
KDE is the answer to all of OPs problems.
Dolphin has been one of my favorite benefits of switching from Ubunt to Debian! I didn't know how "plain" nautilus was until I met Dolphin.
I've been able to customize the file window to my liking and it's really nice !
Using a file manager without split panels feels like going back to the 90s for me now. You mean I have to open two different windows?!
I've tried both but always find myself just opening new windows instead of using split panels. I find it to be more convenient personally.
Dolphin has split panels... Hit F3
Oh yeah that's what I meant, I'm so used to split panels in Dolphin now that other file managers feel old-school.
Personally I never understood why file managers in linux refuse to do operations that require privileges. Guess what, if I have Nautilus open and want to move files into, let's say, /usr/local
, I don't want to have to switch to the terminal to do so if I already have the stuff copied within nautilus. On Windows, I just get an admin password prompt if I try to do naughty stuff. On Linux, we have the whole polkit system, but no file manager seems to ever use it. Tbf, this is not a nautilus problem, as no file manager seems to do this.
You can do this in Nemo by default, and for Dolphin you'll need to install the KDE "kio-admin" package.
In Thunar it's just right-click and "Open as root"
I really like Thunar
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I'm aware of nautilus-admin, but not only is it not maintained, imho it should be part of nautilus by default, and it has to open a new nautilus window when you use it. What I want is to drag and drop files to /usr/local
and then get a password prompt to do the move. With nautilus-admin, I need to have the foresight to use "Open as admin" when going into /usr/local
, but if I had that foresight then I might as well just start nautilus as root to begin with. Usually I just want to look into the folder, and only then realize I need to change something, which means a good old "go back up one folder, then search the local
folder again, then right click, search for 'Open as admin', then get thrown into a new window, completely disorienting myself in the process".
This annoys me to no end.
I honestly can never imagine Linux without KDE plasma. It has its flaws for sure, but at least I can modify the shit out of it to force it to meet my needs 100%.
Yeah every once in a while I see a screenshot of GNOME that looks really nice and get tempted to try it again, and usually within a day or two I'm back to KDE lol.
No shade to people who like to use GNOME, but it's really not for me.
Absolutely. Gnome is becoming gorgeous, but its workflow is not for me. Also, all the missing things that I have to add extensions for is just not ideal. I just re-create the gnome theme in kde when I miss gnome. or just install it in a VM and enjoy for for a little while. Otherwise, kde has always been where I belong.
I don't even use Linux, but isn't copying and deleting files to simply move them, like super bad in the long run for data integrity?
Yes, which is why Nautilus doesn't do that, and OP is doing something weird
It's crazy crazy sort order that I can't stand. They deliberately go in and remove certain characters from the filename, specifically to make the sorting behave weirdly.
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.
I don't know what you mean. If a open my Downloads folder and then download something, it shows up in Nautilus without refreshing anything
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.
I mean at least there is a batch rename function unlike in windows
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?
Again, I can't reproduce it. I can move many GB instantly using ctrl + x and ctrl + v
The only thing that really annoys me with Nautilus is that you can't type in the directory path you want to open except using ctrl + L. In the hamburger menu there even is an option to copy the path. Why not make one more to edit it? Or replace copy with edit, because when editing you can also copy it anyway
Of cause you can batch rename with an additional tool. Same goes for nautilus
So, gnome is an alternative desktop environment and it's great that they exist. If they inspired Apple's UI or the other way around, doesn't matter but they are the Apple UI of Linux. Mac users switching to Linux can have a somewhat familiar experience.
That said, their "we know better than you what you want, luser" attitude makes it hard for me not to grin when someone rants about their stuff. It shouldn't, because they are probably mostly unpaid contributors and their work should be valued, but once in a while...
Dolphin integrates fine into Gnome. Installs a tooon of dependencies though
It looks pretty though
The one that really irks me now is that Nautilus in Ubuntu doesn't show thumbnails for PNG images in the file selection dialog. It's such an ass-backwards change that I'm legitimately shocked.
- The file selection dialog is not a part of Nautilus. It is either a provided by the toolkit (e.g. Qt, GTK3, GTK4) or by a xdg-desktop-portal implementation. The GTK4 file chooser that is also used by GNOME's portal implementation supports thumbnails since December 2022 or GNOME 44.
- I guess you are using an older (LTS) version of ubuntu that uses an outdated version of GTK.