I've forwarded this on to Dave Camp the Ximian Nautilus maintainer and
Luis Villa the desktop manager.

for future reference, you should request nautilus features on
http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:18, Simon Shilton wrote:
> I find it interesting because I have come to XD2 BECAUSE Novell bought
> Ximian.......
>  
> I am a Novell network admin, running bunch of Win desktops, looking at
> Linux as an alternative.
> Generally really like SuSe 9.0 with XD2 ontop, and whilst KDE was
> instant favourite I find the more I use XD2 the more I like
> Gnome....go figure
>  
> 2 things from KDE I really miss, and hence have a launcher for
> Konqueror on my XD2 desktop....
> 1) select and RPM, Konqueror shows you what is inside and offers a
> buton saying "Install with Yast" - would like a Red Carpet equivalent
> in Gnome
> 2) browse in Konqueror to folder of choice and Ctrl-T or right click
> to "Open Terminal Here" - the single most useful thing I have found in
> KDE which Gnome/XD2 doesn't do
>  
> if these are new in Gnome 2.6 apologies.....
>  
> now, if only I could get a few Windows apps to run on Wine/Xover I
> would have a winner....
>  
> keep up the good work
>  
> Simon
> 
> >>> Not Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/05/2004 04:54:25 >>>
> 
> Thats EASY, and should be pretty obvious: 
>      1. Novell really only just bought SUSE.  It takes a while to
>         integrate products.  Ximian too is a pretty new purchase in
>         that context (e.g. integration with Novell's other desktop
>         products). 
>      2. SUSE is a full-on KDE system, with some GNOME. 
>      3. Ximian is a full-on GNOME system, with no KDE. 
>      4. Printing, spelling, application launching are all very core
>         parts of what a "desktop" actually is. 
>      5. Time fixes all hurts. 
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:24 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > PS: I find it interesting that SuSE, one of the bigest distros backing
> > KDE now a Novell product, who also owns Ximian (Evolution), has so many
> > incompatabilites. HTML link, spelling, printing, etc.... My $.02
> > 
> > Thanks,
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