[plug] Nautilus 2.6.3 (New behaviour?)

Rennie renene at barekoala.net
Mon Oct 4 10:28:15 WST 2004


Tim White wrote:
> Debian testing.
> I have just done an update of some gnome files including nautilus. I 
> pulled them from testing (well testing is my default dist) and Nautilus 
> is now 2.6.3 and seems to have had a behaviour change. It no longer has 
> a toolbar, address bar, side panel, or even the inline viewer (text, 
> picture...)
> I really miss the old Nautilus and the new one reminds me of Windows 
> (opening all folders in a new window) and it seems really hard to use. 
> It also has a new desktop icon called Computer that is the root of all 
> your browsing unless using a shortcut to get straight to the location as 
> you can't type the address. It has a 'backtrack' kind of menu to allow 
> you to go up in the tree.
> It seems really bad, any suggestions as to a fix? Am I missing something 
> or did Nautilus really 'go backwards'?
> Tim
> 
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Konqueror?

As always it comes down to personal preferences but I've found that most 
KDE apps find a good balance between usability and choice. That's just 
my opinion, maybe I'm missing out on some cool feature in Gnome because 
I've not used it for a year or so.

R




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