On 03/03/2012 11:06 PM, Haroldo Santos wrote:
>
> Default file manager is thunar, right ?
>
Whatever you please to define. ;)
I have chosen thunar for the ISO only because it requires far less
storage volume than nautilus, and also because i wanted to keep Gnome
dependencies as little as possible. In fact, i should have chosen a
WINGs based file manager like fsviewer, but it is simply to buggy for
serious use.
Personally, i much prefer Midnight Commander for every file management
tasks. All those fancy GUI file managers don't even come close to its
advanced possibilities. ;)
> If I install nautilus, will I get the horrible/broken/unstable version
> 3.x or can I still install the stable and nice 2.x version ?
>
Why should the unstable nautilus version 3.x be horrible or even broken?
It is defintely your own personal Debian installation, and you can
install whatever you want. Nobody is forced to just accept my limited
default installation. Nonetheless, if you want to install nautilus, i
recommend to use the 2.x version from debian/stable:
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# apt-get -u -m -t stable install nautilus=2.30.1-2squeeze1
nautilus-data=2.30.1-2squeeze1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libexempi3
Suggested packages:
eog xdg-user-dirs tracker
Recommended packages:
desktop-base brasero app-install-data gvfs-backends
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libexempi3 nautilus nautilus-data
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 48 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,184 kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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I just installed it to find out what will happen: Once nautilus has been
started after installation, the Window Maker root menus will be
disabled, as nautilus takes over the handling of the desktop.
In order to prevent nautilus from managing the desktop, open the Gnome
configuration editor ("Preferences > Gnome Config Editor" in the window
Maker root menu), and uncheck the entry "apps > nautilus > preferences >
show_desktop". Once done, all appears to be fine. The next release of
Window Maker Live will have this specific setting for nautilus already
included by default, in order to save everybody from the hassle to
perform such kind of abstract customizations.
A short explanation for my choice of gnome/gtk2 related packages:
Both WINGs and GTK2+3 support theming. In case of GTK2+3 theming applies
to all widget elements, while for WINGs only colors, fonts and textures
can be influenced, but not the form and appearance of any widget
element, like for example the scrollbars or button shapes.
For GTK2 we have the GTK2-Step theme, which succeeds in closely matching
the looks of Window Makers WINGs widgets. To my knowledge, there still
is no such theme available for GTK3, so any GTK3 based application has a
very alien look within the context of Window Maker.
As i have grown to dislike the aesthetic hodgepodge we had to support on
X11 desktops during the 90s, i have thus deliberately tried to limit the
GTK2 theming possiblilities for Window Maker Live in such a way, that
GTK2/Gnome2 applications keep a minimal visual uniformity with the
limited WINGs widget looks.
If you investigate the contents of /etc/apt/preferences you will note,
that i took great care to exclude every Gnome3/GTK3 application from
being installed. If you personally don't mind mixing visually different
applications, then i'd suggest to just remove this file, in order to get
rid of these installation restrictions.
Hope this helps,
Paul
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