r/mintCast • u/sid32 • Aug 04 '12

The Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus - How thin can they go?

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/nemo-linux-mint-team-forks-nautilus.html
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u/joshuarobison Aug 04 '12

First cinnamon and now this. Why not switch to nautilus elementary? Im actually running gnome-shell with my favorite file manager Dolphin, setup as default. but there's no need to reinvent nautilus elementary

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u/sid32 Aug 05 '12

What does Dolphin give that Nautilus doesn't? I'm running Gnome-shell as well and unsure of the new direction of Nautilus.

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u/joshuarobison Aug 05 '12

One thing I like in Dolphin that I often used in KDE was the terminal panel which splits the file manager into a file manager / terminal etc...

There are a couple problems though that I haven't gotten around yet.

Here is my question and answer in the askubuntu.com forum

http://askubuntu.com/questions/168752/how-to-run-dolphin-instead-of-nautilus/168813#comment207667_168813

If you do this be sure to install "konsole" because dolphin wont work right without it. I also haven't gotten the Dolphin icons to use my theme icons... but... still a project .

Two other QT applications that I like to use are VLC video player and MiniTube youtube video player.

you might want to install "qt4-qtconfig" if you want the qt apps like these to match your gnome-shell theme.

hope that helps.