On 14-Mar-2001 Larry Grover opined:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2001 08:00, Silviu Cojocaru wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, at 07:07 -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
>> > Currently, Wolverine is the beta of RH7.1. It has a 2.4.1 based
>> > kernel and XF 4.0.2. Not sure what Nautilus is, though.
>>
>> Nautilus is the "beast" that's gonna replace gmc in GNOME 1.4. I
>> think it sux... If someone care for "why ?" I'll be happy to tell
>> him/her/them.
>
> OK, I'll bite. Why?
>
> I tried 1 or 2 of the 0.x releases, and yesterday installed the 1.0
> release of nautilus. I'd like know what other's think about it.
>
> Here's my impression:
>
> 1. Too slow. Although v1.0 is much faster than the earlier
> pre-releases, it's just usable on my fastest system (K6-2 500 MHz, 256
> MB RAM). I wouldn't think of trying it on my slower systems
The main rreason.
> 2. Visually very slick. Unfortunately, the good looks sometimes get in
> the way of functionality.
Exactly why number 1 applies. Making things cute seems to be much more
important than making them work (hello Micro$oft).
> 3. No key board short-cuts (for file cut, copy, paste, etc). It would
> be a real chore to use this thing on a laptop.
I couldn't tell since it took it so long to do anything. It might _still_
be doing some functions I told it to do 3 weeks agao if I hadn't had a
lockup (maybe related, maybe not) since then.
> My reaction was to install KDE 2.1 -- which I'm very pleased with.
Better. But, still too much CPU and memory use for my tastes to use it as
a full desktop. I have it installed along with gnome and use what I like
out of them rather than run up all of the excess.
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