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Nautilus 1.0.5 Release
mz001b writes: "Proof that just because a company goes out of business does not mean that their open source software goes with them -- Nautilus 1.0.5 has been release. See the LinuxToday notice."
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Being a KDE fan, I don't use Gnome, but I check up on it every so often to see if it's reached a state where I might convert - not because I don't like KDE, just that I like to keep my options open and use the desktop which best suits me.
Trouble is, the last couple of times I tried to run Gnome, Nautilus would appear to lock up completely for 30+ seconds at a time.
I don't know why and haven't been interested enough in Gnome to find out why yet. I'll probably give it another try now though, see if it works yet.
I'm serious here. I've never used Nautilus. What features does it have that Konqueror doesn't? How do they compare in speed now that all these optimizations have been made?
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For one (the feature made for me but it doesn't work with .ogg) it allows you to do a mouseover on a .mp3 file and it plays it, when you take the mouse cursor off the .mp3 file it stops playing it.
.ogg support and the speed problem is fixed I will use Gnome and Nautilus more. I think the thing here is they got the ideas working, now the code has to be optimized.
At least that's how it worked with redhat 6.2. Now I have 7.1 and the latest official Ximian desktop and that don't work anymore for some reason. Perhaps a Redhat 7.2/ and a NEW Ximian Gnome would suffice.
If I can get that working with
seems like many of the speed improvments lie in the fact that they are now caching everything or removing certain abilities (like checking for a smaller set of extentions) is this the correct way to make speed improvments? I mean really, reducing functionality can hardly be though of as a speed improvment... so now If i want to search for an icon that happens to be an unpre-defined extinsion ill prolly have to find it myself...bah, do it the right way (code corretly) second, caching everything is a quick fix, but wait for people to shout "it doesnt run with 64 meg ram!!"
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I understand Quanitify originated as a *nix product... it also costs over a thousand bucks. Are there any OSS tools that match TrueTime, Quantify, etc. for usability and features?
Similarly, are there any OSS tools that correspond to BoundsChecker (NuMega) or Purify (Rational)? I'm aware of ElectricFence and other utilities that are primarily geared towards memory management issues; I'm wondering if there are any more comprehensive tools available.
(No, this is not a troll, and yes, I do know how to usee Google, thank you. I've got a genuine interest in the topic, and thought I'd be lazy about it for once and ask people for recommendations before doing my own research.)
I really like using Nautilus to organize my files. I've changed the icons and backgrounds of all of the subdirectories of my home directory to suit my fancy. Certainly this is just fluff, but I like to personalize everything. I use the emblems to mark MP3s that I get from Morpheus. Rather than just deleting low quality MP3s I mark them as being bad and keep them until I find a good replacement. I may eventually write a program that generates a random playlist for my MP3 player, giving songs with a certain emblems higher or lower chances of being picked (I want to listen to my favorite songs more often, but I would like to have others thrown in for variety).
There's still some work to be done though. Sometimes the sidebar tabs die for no reason. The music view crashing also needs to be fixed. If these two things are fixed then I will have no problems with Nautilus.
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I don't find Nautilus slow on my Athlon700 system-not exactly a screamer by todays standards. When running Gnome it opens up in a couple seconds. In KDE it takes three times as long to start but once running I don't notice any lags. I dunno, maybe I'm too use to Windows.
I did a quick speed analysis in the loading of a directory with 2870 mp3 with Nautilus (1.0.5), Konqueror (2.2.1), and Windows Explorer (XP).
all 3 apps were already running, but never visited directory before (so no caching). test done on athlon 800 with 256 mb ram. Everything was set to order by name.
Windows Explorer - loaded new window and loaded files almost instantenously.
Konqueror - open new window was instant.. loading files took about 4 seconds.
Nautilus(icon view) - open new window was instant.. loading files took 28 seconds, 4 more seconds for the GUI to finish layouting.
nautilus (music view) - still loading, has been over 10 mins, gui usable, but the view part isn't (using bonobo?). incomparision, xmms, winamp, and noatun load metadata from mp3s much faster.
looks like nautilus is 32 times slower than Windows Explorer. Much optimization has to be done!
If your'e still using GMC, try Nautilus for awhile - it will grow on you (please, clever punster wags, control yourselves).
I especially like the ability to have remote FTP file systems integrated with the file manager alongside local storage, so I can cut a file from local drive and just paste it into an FTP site. Can't wait till they get SMB file shares and other filesystems added to it as well.
Combine this with the bookmarks feature and you have a very efficient way of managing remote and local files transparently. It's worth a few seconds startup time IMHO.
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