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New Nautilus Screenshots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-at-da-pretty-pictures dept.

max cohen writes "Eazel has posted some new screenshots of Nautilus (as of August 2nd) and they're much improved from eariler versions. I can't wait to get my hands on the Nautilus preview release and give it a test drive!" They've come a long way since the last batch of shots: especially interesting is the way it handles albums of MP3s, and its integration with mozilla.

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  1. You guys don't *get* it, do you? by extrasolar · · Score: 5

    This by far not the first time I am well disappointed with the slashdot crowd. Perhaps someday I will quit posting here. That day is not today.

    Nautilus is great! Maybe some of you can step back a moment to see what Nautilus really it...of course not! this is slashdot! The only one who is allowed to include web browsing functionality into the file manager is Microsoft, right? Wrong! It just makes sense! FTP, HTML, file directories...they all are dependent on each other...they all make *sense* to exist together. Has anyone ever browsed an FTP site in IE? Notice how it looked *exactly* like any other folder in Windows Explorer? That is the *point*! It is called usability, people. It is called ease of use, people. The best interface is when everything looks the same! It is also called power.

    You see, soon novice users will have the power to do some of things you *can't* on the command-line. And that makes you mad. And makes you label Nautilus a Windows clone. Grow up.

    But lets just say for a moment, that you can, theoretically, think out of the box. Then you will see that Nautilus is more than just fancy file manager with web functionality. Did you see the screenshot with the mp3 player? You can play mp3's directly in the file browser! And don't tell me about big Microsoftian applications (again, another stupid comparison with Microsoft) that are monoliths. Nautilus uses components. That means that the web browser is a separate component, the mp3 player is a separate component, and maybe the file browser is a separate component...I don't know! But it is the Unix way, right? Except for the "easy" part which, as we all know...is way to Microsoftian for our own good, right?

    So instead of piping|our|outdated|legacy|flat-text|utilities|to| each-other, we have real power in the OS. Now we can have a powerful yet easy application. Now we can have our cake and eat it too.

    (Note: My hostility is towards several posters who have already posted. I clicked in this story to see if others have seen what I saw in the screenshots of Nautilus. Instead I see anti-Microsoft zealotry. I just think the folks at Eazel deserve a little more. They have actually gone quite a ways beyond Microsoft in both power and ease-of-use. There. I said something bad about Microsoft. You can like me now.)

  2. Real-time Simulation by Hrunting · · Score: 5

    The thing is, with Slashdot hitting the site so hard, you're probably getting a real-time simulation of how the pretty GUI will load on your system.

    Cheers.

  3. Having Trouble Loading Images? by LionKimbro · · Score: 5

    I've mirrored some of the images. (They are quite impressive; Note that as you zoom in on a text file, you can actually read the text within the file..!)

    Consider it an experiment in Slashdotting.