Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha...
by Barrin92 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:34PM
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> It seems wilfully destructive to remove something that is depended on by so many without making sure there's a replacement in place first.
Seems the answer is in that last link of yours:
>Nautilus had have a feature called “the desktop” which adds icons on the background of the user workspace, similar to Windows.[..]
if you look you will see that the desktop is composed by more than 10.000 lines of code
That's a big mess and I finally understand why opening nautilus on i3wm always completely messes the desktop up. Using the file manager as a hack to build a desktop is a bad abstraction and I can understand why it they'd want to rebuild it.
Seems the answer is in that last link of yours:
>Nautilus had have a feature called “the desktop” which adds icons on the background of the user workspace, similar to Windows.[..] if you look you will see that the desktop is composed by more than 10.000 lines of code
That's a big mess and I finally understand why opening nautilus on i3wm always completely messes the desktop up. Using the file manager as a hack to build a desktop is a bad abstraction and I can understand why it they'd want to rebuild it.