Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus vs. xpenguins

[Iain <iain ximian com>]

On 28 May 2001 12:05:35 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Eric Kidd <eric kidd pobox com> writes:
> > Problems include:
> 
> There's obviously a tradeoff. FWIW we'd decided to take the Nautilus
> approach for gnome-fm before it ever became Nautilus - I don't
> remember all the reasons unfortunately. Maybe someone else does.
> 
> All the problems you mention can be worked around eventually, apps
> just have to be desktop-aware. They can be aware of the "desktop
> manager" in a gnome/kde-independent way using the WM spec.

And FWIW (which isn't much) EFM does it the same way, so it's likely how
E17 will do it as well.