Re: Should Suse Users abandon KDE ?!

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:14:17 -0800

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:50:18 -0700,
 Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:48:52 -0800
> yahoo <""mrhuber2003\"@(yahoo).com"> wrote:
>
>> However I do like Nautilus' built in CD Creator and the View as
>> Catalog feature for quickly scanning large image directories.
>> Nautilus' right click context menu for burning an .iso images is nice
>> too.
>
> This is one of the things that is bothering me about the direction some
> Desktop Managers are taking -- a million capabilities in *one* program,
> _just like Windows_! Why? Unix/Linux eschews this massive incorporation
> of functions in a single program, and those programs tend to have *many*
> more bugs, just like in Windows. The KISS principle has been proven many
> times over in many disciplines . . .

In most cases, Nautilus is simply the front end to those tools you
mention. In others, it makes sense to consolidate to one app, if that
app can add to the whole. Which nautilus can.

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