Re: Gnome File Mangers?

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>>Yeah. Gnome has this... look. It's hard to explain but I like it. This
>>does raise another question: Are GMC and Nautilus the only two choices

I just want to pipe in for the defense of Nautilus.  I updated my Ximian
GNOME last week,  after avoiding using Nautilus.  For whatever reason
Nautilus (not GMC) is what started the next time I longed in.  I found
Nautilus to have gotten a HUGE performance boost since I'd first tried
it.  On my lowly 2x300-PII it is quite snappy,  even with multiple
users logged in on LTSP stations (and we only have 256Mb of RAM). Sure
directories containing ~100 images take a moment to display,  but what
can one expect.  Your "average" directory full of various types of
documents opens almost instantly.

My only beef is that neither GMC or Nautilus pick up newly defined
mime types from gnomecc.  I have SO6.0Beta,  so I defined .sxi
as a Star Impress document, with icon, etc...  Might as well have
not wasted my time on that little project.

>>out there for Gnome file managers? I'm sure there are more but I like
>>asking what someone has used, liked and tested before just scouring
>>Freshmeat for stuff.
>I am told that old Acorn-owners love the behaviour of ROX, which
>is a file manager using GTK+ but not GNOME as a whole. It's said
>to be very fast, but I haven't tried it so can't confirm that of
>my own knowledge.
>http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3

I liked DFM before I switched to GNOME
http://www.kaisersite.de/dfm/

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