Nautilus Fan: Nice & Nasty

["Nugeto Mandella" <nugeto_mandella hotmail com>]

In concept I love the Gnome-Nautilus concept and where its going.
In Sarge I was impressed with the direction, in SID happy that some things 
have been fixed but not very impressed with that single naked window, first 
thing I did was make browser mode the default.

The multi window concept may be efficient and geeky good, but its not 
intuitive, plebian users will just think it sucks. If you want the multi 
window concept, then my feeling is that it would be a good idea if one can 
turn the Tree into another window, like EMELFM.

Anyway this I can live with... there are TWO things now that really irrate 
the hell out of me, and I think it really spoils nautilus.

1) Pressing "F" repeatedly does not move one through a list of files... on 
that subject "f" should come just before "F", not after Z, yes thats ASCI, 
but hey we're human. I watch people especially ex MS people on linux and 
almost without fail, they say, "the file is gone". No human, f comes after 
X... huh!

2) The above is also livable, but this is not... if you run a long 
operation, like launch a script from nautilus in a terminal, thats it, 
nautilus is dead. Cant move to another file and say look at something in 
gedit, cant do anything. Its still responsive, but if you do try anything 
else, thats the end of X, stuff starts to ignore you. On that, what I think 
is a threading issue or lack off, try look at say 30,000 files in nautilus, 
goodbye X. This you have to fix, its the only reason I use another file 
manager now... if lots of files or going to launch a backup script... I have 
to use EMELFM.

I bitch at you, only because I like what you have done, appreciate what does 
work very well, and dont want to see a desktop like gnome and nautilus get 
written off, just because of a few little things.

Thanks for the nice parts so far, hope the nasty stuff is in fixit pipe.

N Mandella

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