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One nasty limitation of upstream gnome is that Nautilus usage is hardcoded in, for example, in Gnome Panel. That causes Nautilus Elementary to replace nautilus package and nautilus executable instead of creating separate project. This also prevents users from using alternative file managers such as Pcmanfm.

Maybe Canonical should develop some measure to allow user to choose his file manager in Unity?

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You can already change the default file manager in GNOME, although the setting is hidden.

Press Alt+F2 then enter gconf-editor.

You then need to edit the /desktop/gnome/applications/component_viewer/exec key to the command for the new file manager.

gconf-editor

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I'm afraid, it doesn't work. At least gnome-panel seems to ignore this setting as of Gnome 2.32. – Divius Oct 28 '10 at 16:53
This sounds like a bug to me. You could report a bug on the gnome bug tracker although that would require having/creating a bugzilla account. – dv3500ea Oct 28 '10 at 17:06
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@Divius: gnome-panel, ignores it? lol? – RolandiXor♦ Oct 29 '10 at 5:45
@Roland Taylor: Yes, it does. – Divius Oct 30 '10 at 16:57
On the plus side, Unity doesn't use gnome-panel, so you can use whatever file manager you want. – dv3500ea Oct 30 '10 at 17:14

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