Making Gnome in Arch more like Ubuntu [SOLVED]

Hey y'all.... I've always been a Kde guy, But I decided to switch to Gnome....
I like Gnome on Ubuntu.... but Arch ofcoarse has Vanilla Gnome which is slightly different.....
Does anybody know how to get Nautilus in Arch to be like the one in ubuntu... ???
the Ubuntu version of Nautilus has alot more detail in it and doesn't open seperate windows every time you open something....
maybe theres a patched version of Nautilus on arch that im not aware of?
cheers
Last edited by kaddy (2010-03-22 01:42:01)

kaddy wrote:the Ubuntu version of Nautilus has alot more detail
Perhaps you should specify this a bit better. What do you mean by "more detail"?
Thumbnails and that sort of things?
in it and doesn't open seperate windows every time you open something....
I don't use Nautilus myself anymore, but that was a setting back in 2006. So I bet it still is. Have you checked Preferences for this?
Last edited by Ultraman (2010-03-22 01:02:58)

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