Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus experience

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 3/15/01 1:34 AM, Jens Finke at jens eknif de wrote:

> - Why can't I see the previews of text files anymore? In the preferences
>   is for "Show text in icons: Always" selected. And I tried all other
>   settings.

Not sure. It's a bug on your system. Most users still see these previews.
Perhaps it's an issue with a too-old version of freetype?

> - When I quit Nautilus through "Close all windows", it leaves some of its
> components around. Especially the nautilus-throbber uses 1.9% of my CPU
> time. What does this thing do?

If the desktop is still going, the components should still be there --
Nautilus is still there.

The throbber component is an out-of-process throbber. If it's taking a lot
of CPU time, then that's a bug we'd want to fix eventually.

> - Trying to start Nautilus again at the command line results in the
>   following: /dev/dsp: No such device. This is no problem, 'cos I have
>   no sound installed, but that's it. No new Nautilus window or an error
>   message. After killing nautilus-throbber it works again.

This is a message bubbling up from gnome-libs. You'll see the same message
when you start up many other programs, any that call gnome_init. I agree
that it should be fixed, but it's not a Nautilus bug.

> - I must say that nautilus doesn't handle my desktop. If one do so, these
>   ugly little KDE style icons come to the desktop. Well I admit thats a
>   matter of taste but take a look to the rest of the desktop. Does this
>   style really fits into it?

I don't understand what you mean here. Maybe you could write a bug report
with a screen shot showing the icons you don't like and the stuff on the
rest of the desktop that doesn't fit in.

    -- Darin