On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:54 pm, 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> Well the first step would be to get her up to a current distribution. I would try Mandrake 9.0. I have had great luck with it myself. > > 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. As others have pointed out, this is a feature of nautilus. > > Have any of you all been using nautilus? Is it buggy or ok? > > any alternative suggestions for a user friendly file wrangler? Try a decent KDE? In mine anywhere I right click the first option in the menu is "Create New..." or "Create Directory" > > Thanks, > R > > Did I mention that I hate GUIs? Yes you did. -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.