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The Captains of Nautilus

Posted by Hemos on from the where's-nemo dept.

GonzoJohn writes "The official GNOME filemanager Nautilus was originally developed by Eazel as part of their plan to bring usability and beauty to the Unix desktop. Today Nautilus is maintained by veteran GNOME hackers Alexander Larsson and Dave Camp. Being such a core application in the GNOME desktop it is the topic of many discussions in and around GNOME. In a recent survey on gnomedesktop.org an interview about Nautilus was at the top of the wishlist. So to let everyone get the inside scope on what is happening with Nautilus currently I got hold of Alexander and Dave for a small interview.""

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  1. been a long time gnome user by GooberToo · · Score: 2, Troll

    ...but nautilus is WAY too slow for serious use. It uses tons of memory, CPU and is just beyond comprehension as to why it's so slow.

    For as long as I can remember, I've tried it off and on hoping that it's gotten better. While I must say it's stability has slowly been increasing it's speed seems marginal at best. I'm sorry, but a GUI file manager should be plenty fast on a PII/333 dual CPU all SCSI system. The fact that it's not makes it pretty much a joke at worse and an odd experment at best.

    I've not tried Gnome 2 nor the nautilus efforts on Gnome 2 so I will be giving that a chance. Nonetheless, I'm certainly not holding my breath! When they make it perform reasonably on low-end systems (which I don't consider a dual PII/333 to be), only then will it be considered anything more than a curious toy.