^chewie wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:11PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > This may be common knowledge for every other Debian user, but I thought I'd > > mention that I saw that there are .debs abailable for Nautilus. If you want > > to get the latest releast, put the following in sources.list: > > Thanks, Tim! Great info! ;-) You know what's scary about all this, though? > My desktop is starting to look like Microsoft! Really? You think so? I thought it was looking more and more like OS/2.. ;-) Maybe it's also possible with Windows (probably, but I haven't seen it), but you can build special DLLs for OS/2's graphical shell where you can display the components of a particular directory in a different way -- the effect was much like what the Bonobo components do today (well, it looked pretty much the same, at least). If you had a directory of images, it could be displayed like a contact sheet. Doing that today with Nautilus on my 375 Mhz box is bliss (even though it's still dreadfully slow), when I remember how bad it was when I only had a quarter the clockspeed (and 256 colors...) OS/2 was actually quite good at handling different media types, though it wasn't very fast about it. I believe it actually had a decent way of handling the different image, movie, and sound formats with DLL plugins that did a good job of autodetecting the file format (MS at the time was still praying that the filename extension was correct, and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do that today). Unfortunately, they couldn't get enough companies to produce OS/2 media plugins, so it only supported a fairly small set of media types.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I'm moving to Mars next / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ week. You have any \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) extra boxes? [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org