The new grid view has reached feature parity with the canvas, if we
ignore drag-and-drop and clipboard support (which would need to be
reimplemented in GTK 4 anyway) and performance scalability (which is
a problem of GtkFlowBox and solvable by using GtkGridView in GTK 4).
The canvas view relies on extensive custom implementation for layout,
drawing, input handling, accessibility, etc., which would be too
hard to port to in GT1K4.
Furthermore, most of its features, such as support for manual sorting,
haven't been used since the "icons on desktop" feature has been taken
out from this app. We are actually using a swiss army knife for a job
where we only need a single blade -- a simple pocketknife would do!
Therefore, we say goodbye to this seasoned veteran widget, who has
served us for 2 whole decades.
In theory, it would be possible to just drop the GAIL code and keep the
header, but, given that NautilusCanvasItem is the only remaining
consumer, the needed bits can be moved over.
When hacking on Nautilus, it is very inconvenient to have to close any
running instance before running the built version. This commit enables
running three different instances by changing the application ID.
Beside the default “profile” is one crafted for stable flatpak
releases and one for development. The stable flatpak profile adds an
identifying mark to the about dialog to aid collecting information in
bug reports. The development profile is that plus additional styling to
help visually identify the development instance. It also will be used
when generating Flatpak bundles with the help of CI.
Generally, the implementation is slightly hacky to allow all the
different workflows, spanning from regular installations to GNOME
Builder flatpak builds, as each comes with its own quirks.
Currently, Nautilus is able to save the last window position when it’s
closed. That is broken in certain cases (#197 and multi-monitor setups
in general) and therefore window placement is best left to the window
manager.
This commit does the following:
* Canonicalize the style:
* Use two-space indentations.
* Un-Autotools-ify option names.
* Don’t align arguments, simply increase indentation.
* Don’t add a space before opening parenthesis in calls.
* Remove unused variables.
* Remove unused dependencies.
* Remove config.h.meson.
* Optimize dependencies.
* Use disabler functionality for libselinux dependency, to save lines.
Since it’s 2017 already, Nautilus should use a build system that doesn’t
take longer to set up the build than it takes to actually build. An
observed build time using Ninja of roughly one-fifth of what it took
Autotools is more than reason enough to add support for Meson. Along
with that, this commit adds a convenience script to generate a tarball
for releases, since we use libgd as a submodule and Meson does not
handle source distributions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778167
