Comment 17 for bug 269213

I couldn't disagree more. A pretty basic feature of a file browser is "launch a file". A pretty complicated tack-on feature of a file manager is image editing (even if it is just basic rotations and such). I use the plugin myself, but I honestly could live without it, especially since almost every image viewer has the same feature on the toolbar. Furthermore the extension relies on imagemagick, whereas the rest of Nautilus doesn't.

However, keep in mind that the patch I posted simply adds a watch for the plugins directory so that newly installed plugins are picked up without restarting Nautilus, and that is has nothing to do with this specific plugin.