Re: [Nautilus-list] The screenshots made me think....

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I suggest you try Nautilus out to see how well it fits into the GNOME
environment. If nothing else, it is easy to try using workspot at
http://magritte.eazel.com/nautiluswsdemo.html. There *are* Debian
packages available, in testing and unstable I believe. If you use Potato
you might have some success with http://www.gnome.org/~kitame's page. I
don't know whether he supports Potato anymore. I would highly recommmend
using his freshest CVS based packages (still quite stale, but whatever)
as they reflect on Nautilus much better than PR2.

One of the 4/5 default Nautilus themes is a GNOME theme which uses the
stock icons in the toolbar, and gmc icons in the filemanager. I think
you will find it integrates with GNOME extremely well. The system font
problems remain, I believe. I don't know what you mean by Nautilus using
the system fonts all over.

I don't know what you mean by the GNOME look and feel, since we as of
yet have no style guide. If you consider applications like sodi-podi or
dia to have the GNOME look-n-feel, then most definitely YES. I think if
you look at GNOME applications you will find that there is no strong
look and feel, per se. Nautilus is as much a part of the GNOME look and
feel as any other GNOME application.

-Seth

Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I have just looked at some the new screenshots of nautilus, I havent
> had time to try it out since there are no debian packages available (I
> dont like comiling that much...). The first impression is that it's very
> good looking, my second thought was how well integrated it is?
> 
> The icons in the toolbar seems to be controled by some internal theme,
> isn't it better to use gnome default stock items? And if they are too
> ugly,  replace them? Or make them controled by a central gnome theme.
> Nautilus is going to be a central gnome application, so it is VERY
> important that it is a gnome application and not have it's own look and
> feel.
> 
> There have been some complaints about Nautilus not using system fonts,
> have those things been corrected? Or more general, does Nautilus use the
> system fonts all over?
> 
> And last and most general, how much effort is put in making Nautilus
> work as a gnome application, using the gnome look and feel? The reason I
> ask is that there are quite a lot of voices around me saying that
> Nautilus not got the characteristics of a gnome app. I also read a
> review made by a former efm developer that was quite negative, but his
> major things was about bad gnome integration.
> 
> //Snaggen, still not given up on Nautilus...
> 
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