Re: Nautilus preferences proposal

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 12:47 PM, Alex Larsson wrote:

> Opinions vary on this. Miguel for instance claims that we're forever 
> lost
> if we don't make Nautilus a great browser, since all Windows users are
> used to this and demand it.
>
> Personally I think that while we should not remove the possibility for
> Nautilus to view content of all types (including html) inline, we should
> concentrate on making Nautilus a good file manager. Managing files may
> include looking at html files, but it does not include full featured
> browsing.
>
> Darin, what is your opinion on this?

What you say here was my original idea for Nautilus. The idea was that 
if you click on an html file you should see the contents. This seemed 
like a very powerful idea when Andy Hertzfeld demonstrated it in earlier 
versions of Gnomad.

So I agree with you.

    -- Darin