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Why is Nautilus just becoming a progressively worse Nemo

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@alfredohno They keep rewriting it instead of adding new features akko_derp

Well, they are adding new features, but they’re mainly oriented towards mobile linux users at the moment.

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@julia Well and doing dumb ecosystem lock-in stuff like making it ay more difficult to change what terminal it opens on right click, and Console is also just worse Blackbox so that’s not helpful >w>

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@alfredohno you can change that in dconf under org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal -> exec, exec-arg:

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@julia I tried, did nothing. Supposedly they changed it so Nautilus needs an extension to even check the default

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@alfredohno omfg really? I’ll try and fix that and get it upstreamed hug3

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@alfredohno oh nevermind, apparently that key is deprecated… Apparently it now uses the xdg-terminal-exec standard.

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@julia Weird, I don’t even have that command

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@julia It’s probably declared by home manager again..

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@alfredohno In the source code, it looks like it tries to look for xdg-terminal-exec first, and then the following, in order, until it finds one that exists:

  • kgx (GNOME Console)
  • gnome-terminal
  • mate-terminal
  • xfce4-terminal
  • tilix
  • konsole
  • nxterm
  • color-xterm
  • rxvt
  • dtterm
  • xterm

Rather interesting behavior, tbh. I’ll see if I can get a change merged into glib that will make the deprecation comment on org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal -> exec mention xdg-terminal-exec.

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@julia I guess in the meantime I’ll look for how to edit that value in NixOS

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@chronovore @alfredohno i was just being silly
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