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Hello,

Brand new to Mageia, and installed Mageia 4 last night with my favorite DE, Cinnamon. I really like the distro, but I was surprised to see that the Mageia Cinnamon package lists Nautilus as a dependency, and once I started using Mageia this caused a number of small but frustrating problems (e.g. Chrome/Firefox opening Nautilus by default, Dropbox doing same, etc.).

Am I missing something here? That is, why does the Cinnamon package require the installation of a second file manager, and is there any way to change this?

As far as I'm aware nautilus is not only the file manager, but is also used to display the desktop and some related stuff. But even then, why is that an issue?

It's an issue because Cinnamon also installs Nemo (which is the default file manager for Cinnamon), so I have two file managers installed and running simultaneously, and different applications defaulting to one or the other seemingly at random. It's hardly deal-breaking behavior but it's certainly less than ideal.

I've used Cinnamon on several other distros (Mint and Arch) and Mageia is the only distro that includes Nautilus as a dependency in its Cinnamon package.