Yesterday I upgraded my system from 15.10 to 16.04. Knowing that the nautilus file browser will looks slightly different, I took screenshots before and after the upgrade. I did not think it would look this bad.
Old:
New:
Is this a bug? More importantly, can I do anything on my part to make it look better?
It turned out to be an issue with the theme I am using, however I was able to fix it by copying these lines (line 1340 to 1373) (the part under the "sidebar" comment) from the gtk-widgets.css file (/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/)...:
/***********
* sidebar *
***********/
GtkPlacesSidebar.sidebar .view {
background-color: shade (@bg_color, 0.95);
color: @fg_color;
text-shadow: 0 1px shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 1.04);
}
GtkPlacesSidebar.sidebar:backdrop {
color: mix (@fg_color, shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 0.2);
text-shadow: 0 1px shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 1.02);
}
GtkPlacesSidebar.sidebar row:selected {
color: @selected_fg_color;
text-shadow: 0 1px shade (@selected_bg_color, 0.7);
}
GtkPlacesSidebar.sidebar row:selected:backdrop {
background-image: -gtk-gradient (linear, left top, left bottom,
from (shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 0.94)),
to (shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 0.86)));
border-top-color: shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 0.88);
color: @fg_color;
text-shadow: 0 1px shade (shade (@bg_color, 0.95), 0.96);
}
GtkPlacesSidebar.sidebar .sidebar-icon {
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
... over the "sidebar" part in the gtk-widgets.css file of the theme I use:
/***********
* sidebar *
***********/
...
This is how Nautilus looks now:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus && sudo dpkg-reconfigure nautilus.nautilus, which is why I referred to it as such.