Post #149,076
3/28/04 9:24:28 AM
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Hopefully...
...they've removed the exponential suckage they've been designing in for the past few releases.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #149,079
3/28/04 10:16:49 AM
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What suckage?
GNOME 1.x sucked. GNOME2 has been steadily de-suckifying.
Peter
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Post #149,142
3/28/04 7:07:41 PM
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Well - I find it (2.4, anyway) sluggish.
And KDE snappier. If positions change (again), I may switch back.
All hail choice!
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Post #149,153
3/28/04 8:58:59 PM
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Resource pigishness...
...some config snafus...annoyances that I was finding painful on older hardware.
I have it on a newer machine...I'm ok with it. The apps development is still a-1.
Since they developed Nautilus...they've had an uphill climb with me though.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #149,157
3/28/04 9:53:55 PM
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Nautilus is the Ballz now.
Does everything proper. One thing I am waiting for with the CD burner app integrated into Nautilus is the ability to:
WAV/AIFF/MP3/OGG ---> CDA on CD writables.
Once it does... goodbye XCDroast.
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Post #149,182
3/29/04 10:56:39 AM
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The thing about Nautilus...
...is that it's crap.
However, it's better than anything else.
Velocity is terrible; it doesn't integrate with a damn thing and the interface just feels wrong.
Konqueror seems great, but has a habit of dying horribly when dealing with large numbers of files, and the kioslave thing promises much and delivers little.
Rox is extremely quick and flexible, but if you didn't use Acorn's RISCOS back in the day, you'll never figure it out.
Peter
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Post #149,188
3/29/04 11:07:13 AM
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Dunno...
...if that kind of development effort would've focused on something like GMC..they probably would've spend alot less time and started out with alot more function.
All I know is the first time I installed it it glued itself to the desktop and was truly a pain...of course disabling all of these things was fairly trivial...but it seemed to me they were making the effort (as was KDE with Konquerer) to design the file viewer into the interface like MS did with IE.
To which my natural instinct was "cut it out already"
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Post #149,197
3/29/04 11:27:16 AM
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Re: Dunno...
Personally, I thought GMC was a pile of crashy shite that only existed because they had to have SOMETHING.
In general terms, most people don't want external viewers for silly shit like text and pictures - I just want to look at the damn file. It gets tricky when you try to integrate a web view; my gut reaction is that I like it, but the navigation between web view and filesystem has got to work properly.
Seamless browsing from local to remote filesystem is still arse everywhere. No-one—but NO-ONE—has got this right, and that includes Apple.
I also don't see why I should be starting up a special application just to bung a few files on a CD; after all, we don't have a special gfloppy program to use floppy disks; what's different about a CD?
Also remember that the two main file thingers, Explorer and Finder, are themselves very far from perfect. Explorer has a horrid tendency to lock up when you're doing network things or have a dodgy CD; Finder likes to go BOOM when you're not looking.
Both have huge piles of UI issues, too.
Peter
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Post #149,200
3/29/04 11:32:29 AM
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Xandros FM is supposed to be good for this.
Perhaps Greg or Tom can comment. I've not used it much yet, myself.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #149,241
3/29/04 3:59:19 PM
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It is Konq based...
But they have done a fine job.
It stil croaks on large amounts of files. I have had it do a search for music files, it gets to about 11,000 before it grinds to a halt and just sits there.
EmelFM is about the only File Manager I have seen handle large amounts of files...
But then, it ain't the purtiest thing I have evar seem.
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