On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 20:54, rpgoldman at real-time.com 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> I normally use Gnome, but IIRC, you can right-click pretty much anywhere in the Konqueror window (the right side you're if in split-pane view) and create a new folder/directory that way. > 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> Nautilus looks at the file header to determine what file type it is. Open/StarOffice files *are* zip files. Unzip the file, and you get 3 files: one xml, one css, and something else I don't remember at the moment. THere may be a way to disable Nautilus from looking at the file header to determine it's type. Maybe you need to tell it to only look at the file extension? Dunno -- I use gnome-terminal (cd, ls, etc.) for my file manager :-) > This seems like a bug. Not at all. It's a feature :-) > Have any of you all been using nautilus? Is it buggy or ok?