Re: [Nautilus-list] performance and usability

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

James,

I'm sorry that you seem to only have time to give vague comlaints and have
been unable to actually read the lists to see what has been going on.  If
you had taken the time to follow this project you would have noticed
performance and stability are the major issues being addressed.  people
arn't just hanging about in a illustionary cloud thinking nautilus is
perfect and hacking up new "cool" features for the heck of it.  they are
working hard to fix the many open performance, stability and usability
issues.  to walze in with the air that you are the voice of reason that is
going to pull this project together through empty complaints when you
clearly arn't willing to spend the time and effort to provide any sort of
helpful information is extremely egotistical and insulting to the coders
who are working so hard to make something cool for you.  If your goal
really is to help motivate this project in a positive direction and not to
just vent your frustration, there are many ways that you can contibute
some time and energy to the project, long winded and empty tirades are not
one.  For instance, if you only can spare an hour a week, instead of
getting yourself into useless flamewars, people here would happily help
you learn about how to effectively help report bugs and do QA work so you
can help fix the problems you obviously see.  As for your takign offense
at "personal attacks", respect is earned and you came in here with your
guns drawn and did not show any respect or thoughtfulness.

-Josh


On 25 Jan 2002, James Mitchell Allmond wrote:

> 	Since when did this become personal? I state what I believe to be facts
> about a program in hopes that the constructive criticism would help in
> some fashion and people make personal attacks on me? Who's the one
> that's childish? I even apologized beforehand for sending negative
> comments but negative comments are sometimes needed. For those of you
> that aren't use to them, it's about time you get use to them because
> it's the only thing that will make you want to try harder. 
> 	Some say, "code it yourself then." Well not all of us have time for
> everything we find flawed or in need of help. Another thing to remember
> is that Nautilus became the default file browser for gnome after much
> hype and lip from eazel and the nautilus developers. With that comes
> responsibility. If the Nautilus developers do not wish to have their
> product criticized, don't have it as the primary file browser of gnome.
> Especially when GMC was much more useful from a practical standpoint.
> Yes, I know I can switch to GMC myself but that's not the point. 
> 	My negative comments do Nautilus and the developers more justice than
> those that praise everything about Nautilus and make stupid claims on
> how it's superior to anything from MS or Apple. Such comments are
> delusional and portray the product as 100% acceptable as is. Then you're
> stuck with a shitty application that has nothing going for it but
> blindly devoted fools that hype it to something it's not.
> 
> 	In any case, for those of you that actually develop on Nautilus, keep
> up the work, try to make the navigation more fluid (especially with
> respect to different disks), try to make it faster, and try to keep the
> scope of the project focused.  
> 
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