Bug#1031110: nautilus: tree view no longer available in list view mode

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 5:39 PM Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:
> In Files/nautilus 43.2, in list view, it's no longer possible to also have the
> tree view (it's not enable by default nor there an option in the Preference menu
> for it that i could find).
>
> For reference, this image is what i am referring to as tree view:
> https://i.stack.imgur.com/mKSOd.png where you can see the content of a directory
> by clicing the little arrow on the left (as opposed to cd-ing into it, which
> makes it hard to move files around in a complex directories tree).
>
> I found an article
> https://blogs.gnome.org/antoniof/2022/06/15/the-tree-view-is-undead-long-live-the-column-view%E2%80%BD/
> and it's relevant MR
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/817 that suggests this
> should be part of Gnome 43, but in this case it clearly not.
>
> Can you please re-add tree view in time for bookworm?

Sorry, the new tree view is a Nautilus 44 feature and it is too
complex to backport to Nautilus 43.

We'll upload Nautilus 44 Beta to Experimental soon but it requires a
new major version of GTK4 and libadwaita so it's not supported for
Bookworm.

I believe GNOME makes a Flatpak version of Nautilus. And of course,
there are other file browsers in Debian.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha