Re: Let's remove the Nautilus News sidepanel

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:39:35PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Let's remove the Nautilus News sidepanel. It would solve almost all of
> these bugs:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=nautilus&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=news&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query
> after all, I think we've all seen the "News sidepanel has crashed"
> dialogs.
> 
> More importantly, I don't think that News feeds have any place in a file
> manager, or in a desktop environment. We've got the same thing in
> Evolution's summary any way.
> 

I agree. It's the source of much bug traffic and is far enough from
Nautilus' core mission that I don't see it as being worth the valuable
hacking time needed to nurse it along.

Cheers,
John
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