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?
>
>
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