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Nautilus 1.0.5 Release

Posted by michael on from the ah-eazel-we-hardly-knew-ye dept.

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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  1. Re:Is it usable yet? by NonSequor · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1.0.4 works fine for me. A little slow opening the first window (3 seconds by my estimation), but good after that. This is on an Athlon 1000 with 374MB of RAM (I had 128MB before and it ran at the same speed). I use the music view to play all of my MP3s but from time to time that crashes.

    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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    My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
  2. Re:Perhaps I'll actually be able to run it now by Minstrel78 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is because it's trying to use ESD (esound), which is not configured properly, yet is set to run in the Gnome Control Panel.

    Either make esd work right or disable it and nautilus will become very responsive.

    I'm tracking debian unstable and i've found it to be acceptibly fast for everyday use on my rather average machine (p3/450) and it has a whole bunch of neat features that I keep discovering :)