Re: Nautilus

[John Bridleman <jbridleman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Adam Tauno Williams (adam@morrison-ind.com) wrote:
> >>Has anyone got the eazel Nautilus preview installed?  I have Helix
> >>Gnome, Mozilla, etc... but the installer crashes with a not exactly
> >>"informative" error message.  I'm mostly curious if you used the 
> >>GUI installed and what version of Mozilla you have.
> >You may want to read this:
> >http://www.pablotron.org/reviews/nautilus-PR2/
> 
> Well, at least he doesn't hold back!  I had the installer simply die on my
> machine at home, installing nothing, even though I have a 12 hour old version of
> Helix gnome.  On my workstation at the office it simply removed gnumeric, filled
> up the swap space and crunched the kernel.  Still never seen Nautilus run.
> 
> >before you install. 
> >I have the PR1 and I'm going to dump it first chance I get.
> 
> I'm giving up on PR2.
> 
> Currently I'm using GMC as my file manager, and I'm pretty happy with that.  But
> the thought of showing a thumbnail of an image as it's icon, playing a second or
> two of an MP3 when I mouse over, and letting me add commentary to files &
> directories all sound wonderful to me.  Oh well, guess I have to wait a little
> longer.

Well, I went against my own advice and installed it. So far so good. It takes forever to load, but once it's running it's only real slow.

The image thumbnails and the playing of the mp3 when you mouse over is cool. Where do you add notes for the folders and files?