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Linux Mint founder calls Nautilus 3.6 "a catastrophe"

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Linux Mint founder and lead developer Clement "Clem" Lefebvre has provided further insight into his team's decision to create Nemo, a fork of GNOME's Nautilus file manager, and their plans for the new project. In a new blog post, Lefebvre says that he and his fellow developers chose to fork Nautilus because of the recent controversial design changes in version 3.6 of Nautilus, calling it "a catastrophe" as it "removes features we consider requirements".

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Comments (11)

Then you should figure out why your file manager is making duck sounds!

But seriously, has all of gnome just gone off the deep end?

~Jeff
Nah, they've been doing it for years.
No, I think they are currently investigation new and innovative methods for burying their heads in the sand.
Are you certain they're not trying to bury their heads elsewhere?
My Dearest Dr. G.

Your inference implies a degree of dexterity and finesse beyond the reach of most humans. To insert such a large, not easily compressible object into such a small orifice is not mean task. So I say: Hail to This Set of Gnome Developers, whose efforts have accomplished this impossible feat.

As always,

YBT
"Named after the Captain of the Nautilus in Jules Verne novels..."

I love it.

> "Named after the Captain of the Nautilus in Jules Verne novels..."

> I love it.

Why is that?
@MBT, nobody can do it without help. The only variables are:

1. How much help is needed? and

2. Would the necessary help be considered justified?
Quoting:Hail to This Set of Gnome Developers, whose efforts have accomplished this impossible feat.


Don't let it be said that the Gnome developers can't do anything.
Maaaan, the amount of truly disgusting jokes I could make at this point...

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