Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Sasha Tsykin]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
I misunderstood your comment, I thought that you meant that they were 
designed for one system but different tasks, as opposed to as alternatives.

Sasha