Hi jvoisin,
Thanks for letting us know. I think that dropping the extension is fine
as far as Tails is concerned (and thanks to Romain's Metadata Cleaner).
For people who are used to the Nautilus extension, using Metadata
Cleaner is a bit slower. But the difference in convenience doesn't seem
to justify the extra work upstream.
jvoisin:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Nautilus 43 changed its API, breaking mat2's extension in the process[1].
> I've given some thoughts about it, and I don't think I will port it to
> the new API, for 3 main reasons:
>
> - The new Nautilus version is slow, I don't like it, I'm not using it
> anymore.
> - Romain Vigier (in Cc:) wrote and is maintaining "Metadata Cleaner"[2],
> which is using mat2 under the hood. It's packaged in Debian, and present
> in Tails[3]. Romain has been nothing but a tremendous user of mat2, and
> a great upstream.
> - I never actually used the Nautilus extension, so my motivation to
> maintain it is low.
>
> If you're a mat2-Nautilus-extension user, please do voice your concerns
> here or in the associated bug[4]. Should no credible reason be raised
> against its deprecation, the next mat2 release, likely in January, will
> ship without it.
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