Re: Nautilus dogginess

["Daniel Hauck" <xdesign hotmail com>]

> Ok, what`s the deal here? You talk about all the badness of mozilla and
> then you say you just want to do file browsing? This has nothing to do
> with each other! Mozilla is only used by Nautilus if you enter a web URL,
> for internet browsing. You can also compile nautilus without the mozilla
> component.

So you are telling me that it's not slow?  I'm not familiar with all the
internals and options for compiling and all that.  I'm just a user who
waited a long time hoping for something that will topple Microsoft like so
many others.   I know that on my machines, it's slow.  The Ximian packages
did not want to install on a "full" [custom] installation of RedHat 7.1 but
I was able to overcome that problem on one of my machines.  When I try to
run Nautilus, it's slow.  It takes more than 3 seconds, at time, to start up
from "click."  Sometimes it refuses to run at all.  In that event, I must
open a terminal window and "killall -9 nautilus" and then try to open again
and it does.

It's slow.  I can guess about why, especially knowing that Mozilla is
involved, I am sure that plays a major role.  So regardless of anything I
don't know about it, I know one thing that every user knows -- it's slow.
GMC is faster.  Nautilus is unusable.

> Well, the option is under Edit Preferences -> View Preferences. That's not
> that hard to find. I admit that you must close the window once, the effect
> only takes place for new windows. But thats probably a bug.

I wasn't the only one who couldn't find the option easily.  That in and of
itself indicates that the UI should be updated in that area.  (How about
putting all options in the Edit Preferences dialog?)

> If you really have such a big machine, I would try to compile nautilus
> myself. All the RPMs are build for i386 architecture which is just lame
> and doesn't use any speed improvements on higher systems. For me,
> nautilus really works great.

The biggest reason why that's not a good solution should be obvious.
Nautilus's, Ximian's and Gnome's goal is not only about building a
technically superior environment but also about making one that the average
user can use!  Ask the average user to install using a single command,
that's okay.  Ask a user to recompile his packages and he just goes, "What?"
So even if I knew how to recompile (and wanted to break the RPM discipline?)
is that a solution that should be necessary?

Nautilus is slow.  I can't use it.  It overtakes my desktop without
importing my previous desktop settings and icons.  It took me more than a
couple of hours to return things back to a useable state.  It's frustrating
and I'm sure that's not in keeping with the goals of Nautilus, Ximian or
Gnome.