Get ithere. I''m sure most of you know already, but I thought I''d post it anyway. What are anyone''s thoughts on this? I''ve been using KDE until now, but with this new release, I might try GNOME for a while...

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The GNOME family lost three of our closest members during the last release cycle. All three were passionate about GNOME, and free software, and all were young. This release is dedicated to them and to their memories; happy hacking, dudes.

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...by "lost" do they seriously mean "dead"?

I gotta look at this new release though...they''ve been planning a couple major things for 2.6.

WOOOOT!!

I''ll be downloading it as soon as Dropline adds the packages for it

I''ve been playing with the 2.6 betas and RCs, and I have to say, it kicks major ass. The new Nautilus is holy-bejeezus-fast; everything just screams. I thinks it''s faster than even XFCE4, but I''ve got no hard data; it just feels faster.

The new file selector rocks, spatial nautilus rocks, everything loads way faster - I love it. Just waiting for it to propagate through the Gentoo mirrors; nothing beats having a mirror on the same network.

What exactly does "spatial" Nautilus mean, anyway? I keep hearing the term, but I have yet to hear what it actually means...

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Original post by Strife
What exactly does "spatial" Nautilus mean, anyway? I keep hearing the term, but I have yet to hear what it actually means...

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It's a little hard to explain...you have to see it for yourself.

Imagine booting Windows 95 and opening My Computer, then opening a drive. By default, it opens a new explorer window. This is how spatial Nautilus behaves. Diving into the filesystem opens a lot of windows on your desktop.

Yeah, I know. WTF? This is progress? That's the first thing I change after installing Windows, is to only use one window for everything. Apparently there's a lot of research that says the spatial concept is better, but we all know how reliable researchers are.

But what happens when I want to copy a file? I need to open a new explorer, and navigate to the folder to be able to drag and drop. With spatial Nautilus, just find the window that has the parent of the one you're looking, and start searching.

It's definetly odd, at first. Some people like it, some people hate it. It's a really personal thing. I'm growing pretty attached to it, personally. If you don't like it, there's a GConf key to get the browser behaviour (or, nautilus --browser).

EDIT: That doesn't even come close to doing it justice, apparently. Read this for a much better explanation.

[edited by - ze_jackal on March 31, 2004 8:28:44 PM]

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Original post by ze_jackal
It''s a little hard to explain...you have to see it for yourself.

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Noone can be told what the Matrix "spatial" Nautilus is. You have to see it for yourself.

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Original post by BradDaBug


WOOOOT!!

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Emerging it right now Man, this looks sweeter then evar.

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Original post by BradDaBug

WOOOOT!!

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Is there a reason why default linux desktop configurations look like a prototype of the first GUI ever from the early 80s?