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  1. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  2. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  3. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  4. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  5. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  6. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  7. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  8. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  9. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  10. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  11. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  12. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  13. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  14. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  15. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  16. Re:Ok.. by QBasic_Dude · · Score: 5 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its source code can be found in the GNOME CVS repository. Nautilus is still in the early stages of development. It will become an integral part of the GNOME desktop environment when it is finished.

    Nautilus has many neat features, including:

  17. I completely Agree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots

    I'm not using any software from someone who listens to Backstreet Boys 2000_0 6_04_005318_shot.jpg... especially when they can't spell millennium.

  18. It Lives! by rjamestaylor · · Score: 2 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots
    The Trash Can lives!

    At least it's better than the P.C. recycle bin (bleh) and the 'twilight zone'-ish black hole.

    (Let the wars begin...) ;)

  19. Re:Ok.. by jafuser · · Score: 2 · on Latest Eazel Screenshots

    He should have linked to Nautilus in the story.

  20. Re:KDE & GNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on $3000 "Reward" for KDE/Debian Compatibility

    Without meaning to troll here, it does seem as though KDE has started to become ascendant in the desktop 'war' and GNOME has become a bit more of a backwater recently ; I think the earlier QT licence changes seem to have taken a lot of the impetus out of creating GNOME .

    Maybe I live under a rock or something but I have seen almost the opposite reaction. With Helix Code kicking out new packages of Gnome all the time and the every increasing press releases from Eazel, I have almost forgotten about KDE. I admit there seem to be a lot of bugs but hey it's better then it used to be..... With sawfish it's a killer combination. Still I suppose you are talking about people who actually write code for the projects. <:

    Don't get me wrong, I like KDE but it has become so cluttered with applications that I don't use. I have been on a "simplfy my desktop" mood lately. Ah, the virtues of choice. <:

  21. Re:KDE & GNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on $3000 "Reward" for KDE/Debian Compatibility

    Without meaning to troll here, it does seem as though KDE has started to become ascendant in the desktop 'war' and GNOME has become a bit more of a backwater recently ; I think the earlier QT licence changes seem to have taken a lot of the impetus out of creating GNOME .

    Maybe I live under a rock or something but I have seen almost the opposite reaction. With Helix Code kicking out new packages of Gnome all the time and the every increasing press releases from Eazel, I have almost forgotten about KDE. I admit there seem to be a lot of bugs but hey it's better then it used to be..... With sawfish it's a killer combination. Still I suppose you are talking about people who actually write code for the projects. <:

    Don't get me wrong, I like KDE but it has become so cluttered with applications that I don't use. I have been on a "simplfy my desktop" mood lately. Ah, the virtues of choice. <:

  22. Re:I agree, it's the new standard by Skeezix · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0 Release Schedule
    Take a look at the commercial distributions and you'll find a nearly unanimous standardization on KDE - with RedHat being the obvious exception, of course, and Corel leading the charge.

    I don't quite see this "unanimous standardization" that you are referring to. Redhat and TurboLinux both offer Gnome as the default desktop. Mandrake, OpenLinux, and Corel Linux offer KDE as the default. Most distributions offer both as desktop choices.

    Like it or not, while the Linux community is doing the parallel development thing, in the Linux industry, the race is pretty much over.

    Far from it. I can name 3 companies devoting many manhours and cash to Gnome development: RHAD Labs, Eazel, and Helix Code. Companies such as MandrakeSoft and Corel are funding KDE development. The race, if anything, is just beginning to get interesting...

    Yeah, I know about Eazel. Judging by the amount of hype they've generated, all I can say about them is: show me the code.

    okay:

    here is some of it.
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  23. Re:KDE 2.0 looks gorgeous by Skeezix · · Score: 2 · on KDE 2.0 Release Schedule
    I predict KDE 2 will probably signal the beginning of the end of the GNOME/KDE struggle - its been fun, but KDE appears to be keeping one generation ahead, and is certainly better looking.

    Your prediction will most certainly fail. Watch and see. Perhaps what you are overlooking is that different users prefer different things. I will grant you that KDE is more advanced than Gnome in some areas, primarly in the number of applications they have available. However, many developers prefer hacking in the Gnome environment much better than that KDE environment. And Gnome is doing things now that KDE can't do or hasn't yet. Both environments have their strengths. I can also think of at least 3 companies that are putting extensive amounts of money and manhours into improving Gnome (RHAD Labs, Eazel, and Helix Code). These companies aren't going to just drop their work on Gnome once KDE 2 comes out. You also say that KDE "looks" better. Let me remind you that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally find KDE to be hideous compared to Gnome. This is not a bash-KDE comment. Honestly, I love what KDE is doing. I keep up with the KDE development news, love looking at new screenshots, reading about KOffice and other such projects, and wish them all the luck. And I think the competition between Gnome and KDE is healthy. Neither community is going away anytime soon. I can assure you of that.
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  24. Eazel vs. Gnome and KDE by waldoj · · Score: 2 · on Ask Jakob Nielsen Almost Anything

    From what information is available, what do you think of Eazel? Is this necessary, or are Gnome and KDE too geek-driven to ever meet consumer preference/demand? Do you think that Gnome or KDE could be modified to create a consumer-level GUI, or will it take a project like Eazel to start from scratch? How essential is all this to the success of Linux?

  25. Re:Not if the open source community can help it! by nrc · · Score: 1 · on More on the Samsung Linux Handheld
    The open source community doesn't know how to write a GUI.
    Does that include Andy Hertzfeld?
  26. Re:Let's have the KDE v. Gnome debate one more tim by adraken · · Score: 2 · on Gnome Development Roadmap
    > gmc IIRC is going to be re-written from scratch (or a written from scratch file manager substituted for it)

    This is Nautilus -- the eazel-written GNOME 2.0 Filemanager/Desktop.

  27. Re:Microsoft Window Manager??? by Guy+Harris · · Score: 2 · on Rumblings of MS Office for Linux at CeBIT
    (several apple employees are working on a linux desktop

    The desktop on which they're working is called GNOME. Eazel aren't doing a new desktop, they're doing the Nautilus file manager for GNOME 2.0.

  28. Re:Microsoft Window Manager??? by spoonboy42 · · Score: 1 · on Rumblings of MS Office for Linux at CeBIT

    I think that it would indeed be benificial for Linux if Microsoft were to port their products to the OS. IF they were actually decent peices of software, and you didn't really care about freedom.

    The fact is that there are extremely competent replacements for all MS products available for Linux, most of which are free and open source. Netscape is a faster, more stable, and more secure browser than IE. GCC blows VC/VC++ away in terms of efficiency in both compiling and execution (and if you want to talk programming, Perl and Python are two cross-platform open-source tools that Microsoft can't hold a candle to). As for server software, the argument is over, Apache, SAMBA, etc. are the absolute best servers available for any platform. StarOffice is free as in beer, and offers pretty much all features of office, plus more, with the added advantage of full file compatibility with existing data. In fact, while your windows applications may not be protable into Linux, virtually all of your data makes that transition perfectly.

    As for GUIs, I don't think that a Microsoft proprietary Linux GUI would be a good thing at all. The fact is that X, especially when extended by GTK and Qt, is a far more robust graphics environment than Win32.

    It's obvious that from a technical standpoint, a Microsoft GUI would be inferior. But what about ease of use? Well, if I wanted a super-easy desktop, I wouldn't have MS design it, I'd probably pick Apple (several apple employees are working on a linux desktop in fact). If you're used to windows already, though, you'll find that KDE is by default configured to be very accomodating to you. Of course, when you get a little more comfortable, you can start to use the more advanced features of KDE or GNOME that simply aren't available on any non-UN*X system.

    As I said in a previous post, however, a full port of the Win32 APIs along with DirectX, etc. would be useful in that it would make the task of reverse engineering much easier, making WINE an amazing killer app.

  29. Re:my reaction by tweek · · Score: 2 · on Gnome 1.1.4 Released

    Don't worry about the Gnome UI just yet. As previously noted Eazel will be handling the UI for gnome 2.0. The company core is made up of some of the original macintosh UI developers as well as some people from Macromedia as well. I do, however, think that there should be another repository of people who have graphic and UI skills available for opensource application writers to choose from or call upon. Tigert (Tuomas Kuosmanen) can't do it all himself. Maybe I'll work on starting that up tonight. Just a repository/place for artists to submit icon work and examples for developers to check and see which one fits their mood for an application. Anyone interested in helping? I'll probably end up doing it in Zope/python since that's my new bag as of late. If interested shoot me an email at the above with the subject of ..ummmmm...."UI Design" and let me know. Artists can shoot me an email as well if you want me to let you know when things get going.

  30. interconnected issues by philgross · · Score: 1 · on Connell Replies to "Grok" Comments
    A number of the issues pointed out by Mr. Cornell are interconnected.

    The ease-of-install issue is something that customers and end users demand. If all of Linux development were under some sort of software engineering regime, it would be identified as a needed feature and resources would be assigned to it.

    However, installers are fairly dull from both a programming and computer science perspective, so we've had to depend on the commercial Linux companies (e.g. RedHat) to provide even a minimally acceptable install process.

    Even with a community of thousands of contributing open-source programmers, there are some tasks no one has volunteered to do. It is my hope that as Linux continues to spread, more programmers with an interest in usability (e.g. Andy Hertzfeld of the Eazel project) or commercial programmers with experience in the various consumer pieces missing from Linux will contribute to the endeavor.

    Listening to customers is important. Programmers on their own will produce products that are technically brilliant but appeal mainly to other programmers.

    If the open-source world is serious about taking on Microsoft, we should refocus programmer resources away from the already-great kernel and point them at the install process and desktop, where we're weakest.

  31. More screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on New Desktop for Linux

    http://developer.eazel.com/screenshots

  32. Re:hope they do it right... by jmcmurry · · Score: 1 · on New Desktop for Linux

    I've seen way too many monstrous Linux desktop screenshots to think of Linux as a home to "quiet, neutral [desktop] environment(s)."

    As a professional, you can switch right now to whatever desktop environment you like. Just be sure your professional apps will run once you get there.

    Aqua isn't "insulting." And you've never used it to do any work, so you can't really say what it's like. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want 3" square icons, but I'm also pretty sure that they're not mandatory. Think Demo.

    I bet getting involved with Eazel's project is as simple as clicking.

  33. Re:X != Linux Re:Oh, brother... by costas · · Score: 2 · on New Desktop for Linux

    For those that haven't found the link: Nautilus.eazel.com. From their changelog it sounds like they're developing (or planning to in v1.1) system administration stuff. So, while GTK is platform-agnostic, I am thinking Eazel is focusing exclusively on Linux. OTOH, it will be GPL'ed, so you can port their tools...



    engineers never lie; we just approximate the truth.

  34. Re:uh... isn't this nautilus? by anatoli · · Score: 2 · on New Desktop for Linux

    Yes, it is.
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