Re: GNOME Weirdness

[Jens Finke <jens eknif de>]

On 14 Mar 2001, George Farris wrote:

> What we need is a really good filemanager.  Nautilus is a great file
> viewer but as a file manager it's far far to slow.  It also would be no
> good for a newbie as it still isn't that well behaved.  I've had to kill
> off nautilus/mozilla processes.

I noticed this too. Its very annoying, 'cos without executing
nautilus-clen.sh and explicitly kill gconfd-1 it won't start again.

> There needs to be some kind of copy/paste or file shelf function to
> temporarily hold files one is moving or coping.

There has been a long discussion in the early days of nautilus development
about this feature. They came up with the result, that it's not intuitive
and consistent so they dropped support for it.

> Trying to have two windows open on a small screen and
> drag between them is a joke.  Sorry Eazel but it's just not good enough
> as a file manager - yet.

Well, you can turn off all the menu and side bars seperatly for every
window. So you can have only a simple window with directory contents. I
don't think one can implement an application which uses less space.

Regards,
   Jens