Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Derek Broughton]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>> that Nautilus doesn't play nicely with  the network,
>> 
>> I didn't think Nautilus was supposed to play nicely with the network.
>> That's what Konqueror is for. :-)
>> 
> no. Nautilus is for Gnome and Konqueror is for KDE. They were made for
> the same purpose but for different desktops (although Konqueror doubles
> as a web browser while nautilus does not.

My point precisely.  Nautilus is purely a file browser (aiui - noting that
I'm not a Gnome user).  That should mean, presumably, that it should play
nice with NFS mounts (and probably CIFS/SAMBA _mounts_) but I'm not at all
sure it needs to be more aware of the network than that.  Konqueror, otoh,
is supposed to be completely network aware, making it seamless to use any
KIO slave as a filesystem.  They're not "made for the same purpose" at all.
-- 
derek