Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:43:22 +0000 schrieb Foxy:

> in gnome we have nautilus and konquerer in kde, both bear no
> association with file manager for me...

No, they have an association:

On MS Windows the file explorer is named "Explorer".

Read Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror

> The name Konqueror is a play on the names of other browsers: first
> comes the Navigator, the Explorer, and then the Konqueror. It also
> follows the KDE convention of naming programs with a starting letter
> K.

This for nautilus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_file_manager

> The name is a pun on the shell of the nautilus.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus

shell->filemanager :-)

I think these names are _really_ smart. Worse luck that Explorer is yet
reserved, so this would be a great name for an E filemanager.

regards
Andreas


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