Hi!
> Nautilus is indeed going to be the next generation file manager for
> GNOME, but in its current state it is too big and too slow for users
> that are not running top of the line computer systems. I recently
> visited Spain and the "big" machines that were being used by most
> people were the 200 Pentium MMX computers with 32 to 64 megs of
> memory. Sure, high end computers are available to be purchsaed, but
> many developers are still using 33 Mhz computers in there. And Spain
> is part of the European Union.
>
> Things are worse in other countries. The GNOME edition of MC as a
> file manager is not ideal and is far from perfect, but currently there
> is no solution for those small machines that want to run a graphical
> user interface. I know the GNOME adapter layer is one of the most
> disgusting pieces of code out there, but if I want to keep it is not
> because of a personal preference (for the record: I am mostly a
> gnome-terminal + mc kind of user, and use gmc mostly just to keep my
> desktop icons) but because there is still a need for it.
What is wrong with keeping 4.5.52 as "stable" release with both mc and
gmc, plus starting 5.0 "development" branch with gmc stripped?
Or another solution. Say that it is okay to break gnome edition in
cvs and that it is up-to some kind of gnome maintainer to fix it. With
this, two things can happen
1) We'll find that gnome is not being broken in practice. That's okay.
or
2) We'll find that gnome is being broken much too much, and gnome
edition will be dropped. Spain users can still use 4.5.52.
Pavel
PS: I believe right approach for gmc is rm -rf and starting
over. Gnome edition should do stuff like threading etc... Which means
libvfs is unusable for it and gnome-vfs [however bad] is the only way
to go.
--
The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel
GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
