On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:50:46PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 4/25/05, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Mon, 25 Apr: > > > > > > Actually, I'm just after the clean look and feel of Gnome. > > > > like myself... > > > > > I too don't use KDE's GUI for file manipulation so often), it's just > > that: > > > > > > 1. Nautilus seems to be startted as part of the default gnome session > > > or somesuch, so until I get to disable it, it's pretty annoying. > > > > apt-get remove or just edit the gnome session (it's in the settings > > mentu I think) to not-run it. > > > Which will leave me with which other GUI options?
One that comes to mind: rox-filer. Fire it up when you need it. It won't drag all the background and deamons with it. > > > 2. Sometimes it's useful to have a way to view files in a GUI, or be able > > to > > > drag-and-drop files around. > > > > other than conveniant renaming, convinient, but irreproducable. > > I find GUI file browsers to be slower > > than a bash prompt with tab-completion and globbing. there were few > > times when I needed to sort files when the GUI was a more efficiant > > tool. That said, I am not dissing the world of GUI file browsers, just > > > I got you about that. Just before I read your message I've moved files from > my camera's compact-flash into the Digikam album which was a great > experience to do this way instead of "mv" of the right cryptic-looking file > names to the right sub-albums. There ARE uses for GUI interfaces. However both automatic mounting and automatic inline viewing are of the more problematic features. Image previewing is a cpu eater. Have it only when you need it. Automatic mounting is nice. However my simple mind rathers having an explicit "mount" and "unmount". Otherwise you can forget to sync the filesystem before removing the device. I don't deal much with images. I imagine that there may be some nice, specialized tools. e.g: qiv is a nice and simple image viewer that integrates well with the shell, or gthumb. [ snip ] > and I want it for myself too. I won't argue with that :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
