Comment 88 for bug 325973

2009/10/12 nyarnon <email address hidden>

> Well this has taken to long already I'm seriously thinking of replacing
> nautilus by Thunar. It's really ridiculous that a bug like this just
> persists. Unless gnome is protecting it's desktop.
>
> --
>

The issue is not trivial to fix and comments like that aren't particularly
helpful. Nautilus is currently a required component of the GNOME session
because it is needed for auto-mounting removable media. However, Nautilus is
currently designed to exit when it has nothing left to do (such as when it
is set to not draw the desktop), which contradicts the need for it to be a
required desktop component and doesn't make much sense.

So far, it doesn't seem like anyone here has come up with any proper
solutions. Either Nautilus should be designed to never exit, even when it
has nothing to do (such as drawing the desktop), or the media handling part
of Nautilus should move to some other desktop component and Nautilus should
not be a required component. Both ideas are non-trivial though, and require
someone with the time and interest in working on it.

You're more than welcome to make a contribution.

In the meantime, if you don't want to keep modifying nautilus.desktop after
every update, just remove nautilus from the list of required components in
your session