I don't use a file browser (the command-line is faster for most things I do), but I know a Gnome developer who's done a lot of work on Nautilus and he assures me that it is much improved in Gnome 2.0. If you're interested in Mandrake, Gnome 2.0.2 is included in Mandrake 9.0. - Jared On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:54 pm, you wrote: > Anyone using this beast? > > I'm desperate to set up a non-computer person with a desktop on a > Mandrake 8.1 system. KDE is ALMOST right --- the desktop's great, but > <rant>konqueror is totally bagbiting as a file manager (for heaven's > sake, to make a new "folder," you gotta go under the Edit menu (which > NO ONE uses for that), then open the create new choice, THEN choose > directory (which only people like me know is what a folder really > is). </rant> > > So... I thought of nautilus. But nautilus thinks star writer > documents are zip archives and no matter what I do, I can't change > it's mind. <rant>I changed the &obscenity "file associations" in the > &obscenity "control center" and it doesn't make any &obscenity > difference. I HATE GUI's. Give me a CLI any day.</rant> > > This seems like a bug. > > Have any of you all been using nautilus? Is it buggy or ok? > > any alternative suggestions for a user friendly file wrangler? > > Thanks, > R > > Did I mention that I hate GUIs? > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list