Re: Beyond Nautilus 1.0

[Marc Fearby <marc fearby com>]

What Heikki seems to be suggesting is a Microsoft Explorer gone power-
hungry to do everything you could ever want in a simple file manager! 
How many people actually need spectral analysis or even powerpoint 
support in a file manager? Isn't that what waveform editors and slide 
presentation programs are for? I thought file managers were supposed to 
give you a simple, bloat-free, fast, and efficient way of accessing 
your files?

What you appear to be suggesting is a mother-of-all-file-managers which
wants to be all things to all people. Let me tell you now that it's 
never going to happen - not in Linux anyway, I hope! How useful are 
spectral analyses to 99% of the file-browsing community anyway? Maybe
a hex-view would be useful as well - I know *lots* of people who can 
read hex!

I may seem a little harsh in my reply and for good reason. Linux got
where it is today by modularising everything and resisting the one
size fits all approach. A Nautilus gone mad would be my last choice 
for a file manager - even GMC or FileRunner would be more useful than 
a file manager which tries to be more than what it is or ever should be.

I want XMMS to play my MP3 files inside an XMMS window I can control, 
not a bloody file manager! The moment a bloated Nautilus is integrated
with Gnome I'll be switching to XFCE or KDE!

As for your other suggestions - sounds good.

Marc Fearby
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