On Wednesday 14 March 2001 12:17, ABrady wrote:
> 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.
Out of curiosity, I put kde2.1 on one of my older machines (P200, 64 mb
ram). In comparison with the WM I used previously on this machine
(blacbox), the biggest difference I found was in start-up speed: about
40 sec to start kde, about 2 sec to start blackbox.
However, once started, I couldn't tell much difference between kde and
bb, even running two fairly heavy-weight applications simultaneously
(netscape + star office).
Of course, I might have noticed more of a difference if this machine
had a slower processor, or less ram.
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Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
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