Re: Nautilus dogginess

["Erik Hendrix" <hendrix_erik hotmail com>]

How about a way in between? A application which would make it easy to compile Gnome?

I was always afraid of compiling the kernel, but after having it done once ( a while ago now) using the X configurator I felt that it was not hard at all.

If there would be something that could do the same for Gnome then one could compile using better settings.

>From: "Daniel Hauck"

>To: "Jens Finke"

>CC: "GNOME List"

>Subject: Re: Nautilus dogginess

>Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:10:53 -0500

>

> > 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.

>

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