Re: is nautilus as good as midnight commander?

[Lucian Gabor <luciangabor yahoo co uk>]

"Something" understanding that you're accessing source code withing a project could be the best approach.

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:28, gabor wrote:
> hi,
>
> well, the subject is maybe a little rude :>
>
> i was thinking...
>
> i think i like the new spatial behaviour....
>
> the problem is, that i only use nautilus when i want to see the
> thumbnails....
>
> all the other times (i am a developer working mainly in java),
> when i want to reorganize my files (sourcecode, xml files, whatever),
> i start midnight-commander and do it there....
>
> and now i've begun to think about it...
>
> if this is the era of GUIs, why do i open always a console program....
>
> so i imagined myself doing all the stuff i do in nautilus...
>
> but it seems a lot less effective.
>
> moving files/directories around... i can do that much faster, with the
> arrow-keys+tab+f5+f6 and so on...
>
> i'm not criticizing the spatial nautilus or the non-spatial nautilus
> here, same goes for explorer or konqueror.... it seems for me that the
> whole explorer/nautilus/konqueror filebrowsing principle is destined to
> be slower than the norton-commander style... isn't it?
>
> the question is:
> i do not know something?
> could you show me examples how to work with
> a-lot-of-files-where-i-dont-care-about-the-thumbnails
> as fast as in midnight commander?
> maybe having 2 nautilus windows next to each other and cut&paste +
> alt-tab? but it still feels a lot slower.
>
> i understand that we need to make it easy to use for beginners (novice
> computer users, whatever)... but what about me? :)
>
> gabor