Just an usability comment. One feature of CDE (in particular dtfile) that I miss too much when using gnome is the simple Ctrl+T keyboard accelerator to open a terminal with the same cwd as the directory shown in the file manager. That's a time saver. Gnome forces me to use the mouse to open a terminal. Another feature (this one from dtterm) that I miss as much is the possibility to drag some text and drop it on the terminal window to have it typed to the command line. In gnome I must mark the text and manage to press both mouse buttons simultaneously (which I sometimes miss). These two features made me think several times before switching to gnome, and when I finally did I still wasn't very convinced I would be productive. A last observation. Who would care about a Documents folder in the desktop? I really need a shortcut to my home folder, and I am forced to open the Documents folder and cd .. to get home. All in all, I think gnome targets only novice users, and tries to be a replacement for Windows desktops. I hope they will improve soon. -- Douglas
> I have been a Solaris user since Solaris 2.0 and used > SunOS 1.X.X > before that. I did actually use CDE in Solaris 2.6 > but I tend to use > core Unix tools when possible so my only experience > with the file > manager was when using CDs. This message posted from opensolaris.org
