Re: [Nautilus-list] my problem with nautilus

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

I totally agree, however this problem has been fixed (depending on your
distribution). Mandrake Linux works ``right'' by default.

--Ben

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:59, George Farris wrote:
> I was just about to post something along these lines to the Gnome list. 
> I work for a College and the one thing that really holds Linux back in
> many, let me repeat MANY areas is the handling of the floppy disk. 
> Having to mount the floppy disk has got to be the most brain dead
> stupidest thing about Linux's access to the Desktop market.
> 
> WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO MOUNT THE FLOPPY!!!
> 
> Sorry for shouting:-)
> 
> Students and faculty cannot handle this and until it's fixed in Linux
> we're just fooling ourselves.  Yes it seems trivial but it's a huge
> issue with students in a lab who can barely figure out what application
> they are running let alone having to mount and unmount floppies and
> cdroms.
> 
> If GNOME wants to be a major hitter and win windows users over this has
> to be addressed.  I see it everyday and it doesn't matter what anyone
> says, it's a big issue.
> 
> On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:19, Mitch Allmond wrote:
> > There are a few things that really bother me when it comes to Nautilus
> > which include:
> > 
> > A.) Nautilus isn't very fluid for moving between hard disks, cdroms,
> > floppies, etc.... Since the "draw to desktop" seems to slow my computer
> > down quite a lot, I turned it off. To my surprise, I can't move between
> > disks within one single nautilus window. It's dependent on having the
> > icons on the desktop to move between disks. This is just piss poor. As
> > some other guy mentioned, I like the My Home idea where it would show
> > the hard disk, floppy, cdrom, local network, etc.... Much like it is in
> > windows. I don't suggest this because windows does it this way but
> 
> 
> -- 
> George Farris - VE7FRG
> George gmsys com
> 
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