Eazel wasn't a complete scam

Posted Jan 22, 2008 18:45 UTC (Tue) by wilck (guest, #29844)
In reply to: Eazel wasn't a complete scam by louie
Parent article: Ten-year timeline, part 2: the bubble days

>Nautilus was to be part of the front end for those services, and hence had 
> to be written (especially given how terrible the old file manager was.)

Disagree. gmc was the best file manager GNOME ever had. When Nautilus replaced gmc, I switched
to KDE.

Eazel wasn't a complete scam

Posted Jan 23, 2008 3:59 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Agreed.  Other than massively more memory usage, I don't really see what Nautilus brings to
the kitchen.  That whole spatial gaffe was downright embarrassing.

In the past, I've been tempted to propose Thunar for inclusion in Gnome.  It is getting quite
complete, feels 3X faster, and takes less than 1/6 of the memory.  I expect it wouldn't be too
hard to add any missing features and it would certainly be much easier than trying to clean up
the Nautilus code base.  If only I had free time...