Finally there's the icky search thing where you type and it instantly starts a recursive search. Then there's the removal of split pane views and the removal of Compact view and other view options. So then looking for it I have to scan Places, then Bookmarks - twice the brain work. But when I bookmark a location in Nautilus it comes up in a completely separate place. OK you can hack the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file (and make it read-only so your change doesn't get lost), to get rid of Videos or repurpose Documents. I find it really jarring to look in several places to find that convenient shortcut I wanted. But the Gnome team have overdosed bigtime with this one:
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It reminds me of Chrome and all those annoying Windows hardware vendors' non-standard software, where they think that their design is best and remove all the standard bits that make an OS (or graphical shell) nice to use. It's like there's an invisible titlebar's space above the window because you can't position the window very near the top of the screen.I like to move windows around, but there's not much to grab and drag now.Are these respected in the reinvented wheel of nautilus' new titlebar? Nope. I have configured Gnome Shell so that double click a title bar maximises vertically, middle click maximised horizontally.Every time I go to close a window I go left where I expect to find it, then remember, oh, nautilus! and go right. I have my close button on the left (I was won over to this by Ubuntu's radical move a few years back, and now I like it), but Nautilus forces me to have the close button on the right.I use Close, Miminise and Maximise buttons, but Nautilus ignores this preference, giving my just Close.At first I thought, well that's efficient, but then I realised that it makes it breaks a few things that turned out to be important to my productivity: The titlebar and toolbar have been merged into one. It's recently developed a few non-features, and removed a few useful features and although I tried to like it, I could not get on with it after a month's use. Nautilus (generically called "Files", just to confuse everybody) is the default file manager that comes with Ubuntu and Gnome.