Comments on: PCMan: the real and true Gnome file manager

By: priyo handoyo

priyo handoyo — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:11:17 +0000

nautilus is a little bit slower then pc man but it can automatically mount the unmounted fs.

By: Gary B

Gary B — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:18:55 +0000

Now all I have to do is find pcman to try it out… :)

By: Gary B

Gary B — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:18:17 +0000

Oops – the line from the nautilus configuration file was filtered. Here it is without the brackets:
entry name=”start_with_sidebar” mtime=”1230921736″ type=”bool” value=”true”

By: Gary B

Gary B — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:17:09 +0000

I’m running Ubuntu. In order to make the option to show the side pane, I had to (a) rummage around the net for a while; (b) in Nautilus open Edit:Preferences, click to the Behavior tab; click “Always open in browser windows”. Then log out completely and log in again. When I logged in again, the sidebar showed up.

To double check, in a separate console I looked at ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml. In that file there is a line that looks like this:

It is a mystery to me why this option isn’t always available in the menus. It is not visible unless either the above is done, or nautilus is started from a shell with the option –browser

I also wonder why ‘Tree View” is not an option in the main pane, along with “List View” and “Icon View”. I do not consider participation in the dumbing down of everything to be an appropriate task for a software designer – especially to a point beyond which MS has ever gone.

By: Daniel Ferber

Daniel Ferber — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:18:01 +0000

Hi William,
I managed to make the view appear by pressing F9 or View->Side bar (or something similar because my gnome is not in English). However, this does not show the tree by default. On the top of the view, there is a label called “places”. If you click on this label, then a menu will pop up where you can choose “tree”. It is not very intuitive. And as far as I now, this is not documented.

By: willyhoops

willyhoops — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:29:30 +0000

i have been trying our gnome today just for fun and although i got a side panel to come up once i just can’t see how to do it again. F9 does nothing, there is no tree on the places menu, and view has no side pane option. shame you guys who think gnome does trees can not be more specific. i tried the online help but it is no good either. the moral of this story is i guess that microsoft are still almost the only players who can write good gui software (vista aside)

By: mpe

mpe — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:19:31 +0000

I hate to rain on your parade, and I’m not a Gnome fanboy, but ..

Nautilus can do most of what you whinge about. If you hit F9 or View->Side Pane, you can get a tree view that allows you to see the directory hiearachy and navigate between siblings etc.

By: Douglas Drumond

Douglas Drumond — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:10:06 +0000

“There is no tree view of the file system. It is not possible to see the directory hierarchy.”

Oops… indeed there is a tree view. Just click the “Places” on the left panel and you will be able to choose “Tree”