Any technical reason against installing Nautilus on UM 16.04?

[desconocido]

I am thinking of installing Nautilus and removing caja. Is there any technical reason why that would not work?

[garfield]

It is not a good idea to remove Caja, because Caja is also responsible for the display of the desktop.
Additional file manager is ok, but why Nautilus? (Caja is a fork of Nautilus).

[desconocido]

@garfield

but why Nautilus?

Because caja won't display previews of images etc in List View, while Nautilus will (or at least, did).

[ouroumov]

There shouldn’t be any conflict if you want to have both Caja and Nautilus installed.

[Bill_MI]

I just installed nautilus in a virtual machine of U-M 16.04. It has little resemblance to the Gnome2 version and does things so differently I can’t believe it retains the name.

It DOES display preview icons in /usr/share/icons but I attached to a samba share - no dice. Caja can set “local files only” and filesize so I looked for such settings… and looked… gee, is there any settings in this? I found so much stuff I could never live with I had to leave it be. It’s really bad for a keyboard navigator like me.

I’m curious, if you install nautilus, how you like it? It’s possible more packages are needed to enhance its capabilities.

[desconocido]

OK, I will try out Nautilus in addition to caja and see how it works out.

Before I do that, however, I will see if I can solve another problem I have with caja - I don't want to confuse the issue too much.

New bookmarks in caja are not propagated to "Save/Save As" dialogue boxes

I have upgraded my system from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu Mate 16.04 It was a fresh install onto the / partition, but on the /home partition I had deleted all . files/folders in ~ except the ones I needed: .gtk-bookmarks .mozilla/ .thunderbird/ .themes/ caja picked up my old bookmarks from nautilus on 12.04 and so did the "Save/Save As" dialogue boxes. However, if I add a new bookmark in caja, like "cartoons" here: [image] it does not appear on future uses of Save or Save As: [image] Is t…

[desconocido]

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New bookmarks in caja are not propagated to “Save/Save As” dialogue boxes[/quote]

Ok, that problem turned out to be a feature, not a bug, and a workaround has been found.

So now I am ready to install Nautilus.

(Although I gather from

show thumbnails in list view

that my problem with caja not showing previews in List View has been fixed: however I don’t know when that will be available for me to install in Ubuntu Mate 16.04 - it will be caja version > 1.18, I think)

[desconocido]

OK, now I have installed Nautilus.

$ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 3.14.3

I can run it nicely from the terminal and produces what I want for List View:

I can't find an "Edit Preferences" menu, can't get it to show all those columns as default, and I notice that although it does what I need with graphics files, it does not do what the old Nautilus did - show extracts from the first few lines of text files in the text file icon.

All I need to to do now, is find a way of making the "Places" top panel menu call Nautilus instead of caja.