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Well czya...

Tony

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Tony lopes
(707) 942-9623
Someone sonic net
http://www.sonic.net/~someone
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I stood there attention to the west.
Her eyes were green.
The sky was blue
She turned to me
She says "I can't see?"
I says "See what?"
"I can't see the sun" she says.
So I turned to the left,
And took one step to the south.
Now that's something I'll regret.
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> From: "David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)" <captain isdn net il>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:43:41 +0300
> To: Tony L <someone sonic net>
> Cc: nautilus-list lists eazel com
> Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] Suggestion.
> 
> OK, I'm no Nautilus guru, just interesed in the future of GNOME2, but
> here are my 2c:
> 
> Tony L wrote:
>> 
>> I'm attaching a program that I was working on for MacOS 8.6/9.0.
>> It's a file manager much like the NeXT browser.
>> It's based on parts of Greg's Browser, Simple Browser and the MacOS X
>> Finder.
>> I don't have a working copy since it is still in heavy development.
>> But the picture is of what I want it to be idealy.
>> I think that UNIX really really really needs a NeXT browser type of thing.
>> I also know it is not that hard to do especially on UNIX systems.
>> I like the idea of having many directories/folders in one window, it's much
>> more effecient and saves the proc and mem a lot of work.
> 
> Yeah, I agree, but as far as I know, Nautilus is built with something
> called "Views", so anybody can write soemthing like a "plug-in" that
> configures the way it looks. (Gurus - correct me).
> 
>> Also. I don't know how far you are with Favourites/Bookmarks but they are
>> definantly a must.  As well as the History/Go menu/option.
>> 
> 
> Yeah, MSIE for Windows (never saw the Mac version, saw the Win version
> at a friend), got a very cool history thing, but from what I saw from
> the screenshots (nautilus.eazel.com/) Nautilus got a very similiar
> history system.
> 
>> On a more technical note; I know that GTK has a tab widget that would be a
>> lot better than the gray tabs you have right now. I don't know if you have
>> seen Internet Exporer 5.0 for MacOS but it has one of the best tab systems
>> ever. If you don't like that one please, I beg of you check out Evolution in
>> CVS. It has a very awesome way of organizing stuff. The code is open source
>> so you can take use what you need.
>> 
>> I was also wondering if you were going to use GTKHTML to make a light-weight
>> web browser part of the Nautilus. That would be very useful.
>> 
> 
> Yeah, this is implemented as a view as well.
> 
>> One more question... Will you be using XML at all for anything?
> 
> Yeah, everything is using GConf (afaik), and GConf (check
> developer.gnome.org, the previous feature I think), uses plugable
> "back-ends" for creating something like the Windows registry, but by far
> more powerfull and stuff, and the only back-end available so far is an
> XML one.
> So all of the configuration and (not sure) meta-data will be saved in
> XML.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tony
>> 
>> .   .   .
>> Tony lopes
>> (707) 942-9623
>> Someone sonic net
>> http://www.sonic.net/~someone
>> .   .   .
>> I stood there attention to the west.
>> Her eyes were green.
>> The sky was blue
>> She turned to me
>> She says "I can't see?"
>> I says "See what?"
>> "I can't see the sun" she says.
>> So I turned to the left,
>> And took one step to the south.
>> Now that's something I'll regret.
>> .   .   .
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Name: FileManager.gif
>> FileManager.gif    Type: GIF Image (image/gif)
>> Encoding: base64
> 
> -- 
> Best regads,
> David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)
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> http://www.libranet.com/petition.html
>