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A Nautilus Sucks Donkeyballs Linux Rant (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of cause you can batch rename with an additional tool. Same goes for nautilus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't want to debate win here, that's off topic, but batch renaming is something Explorer does.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Thunar comes with Batch Rename tool.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why the fuck does a desktop app have a hamburger menu though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Why not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dolphin has a hamburger menu too, what's so weird about that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gnome and kde are horrible for that. Mobile UX on a desktop platform is terrible to use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like with every major UI update it takes more steps to do the same basic tasks.

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

They're gonna have to put those options somewhere and there's only so much space in the top bar