Talk:Nautilus (file manager)
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[edit] nautilus
Anyone feel up to writing a description of "spatial" as relates to file managers -- and Nautilus in particular? The link to spatial in the article was all but irrelevant. I should warn anyone attempting it... it's probably best not to use Nicholas Petreley's article as a source ;-) Motor 14:28, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
- I have wrote a stub about it on Spatial file manager. It could do with some more work though. Krik 22:13, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Improvements
The screenshot with the browser mode should include the browser sidebar which enables a view to the directory tree.
It should also show them as they might actually be used. Showing the result of double-clicking on "Computer", "Filesystem", "usr", and "bin" doesn't actually show something that anybody would actually use it for (when was the last time you opened these windows, just like that?). How about something like a window showing ~/Photos/, with a bunch of digital photo thumbnails?
[edit] Comparison of file managers???
Anyone really familiar with Nautilus up for filling in its entry in Comparison of file managers??? There are lots of holes in terms of what Nautilus can do.
[edit] Pun?
How is the name of the file manager a pun on the shell of the nautilus? Is this an obscure pun that requires explanation, or is it an esoteric use of the word "pun"? POV? The name of the line of exercise equipment is a pun on the shell (the cams used in the machines to reduce inertia vaguely resemble the cross section of the shell), but how could the name of a file manager be one? If the "pun" is based on a file manager being a tool to work with objects within a shell [pun=> shell (operating system gui)=shell (nautical fauna)], that's more than a bit of a stretch, and not really a pun; the choice of name is too random. You could just as easily have named it "Hermit Crab." Can we get an explanation or a source citation? Or is it not a pun, but a case where the software was simply named after the shell of the sea creature? Canonblack 13:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- Nautilus isn't the pun, "shell" is the pun, so let's see if we can fix it... MFNickster
[edit] List/Comparison
I don't see any point in having both List and Comparison... I picked "List of" for the time being... but I've also posted on Talk:Comparison of file managers asking what's happening with the merge between that and List of file managers. - Motor (talk) 15:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Move
Shouldn't this be at Nautilus (file manager), as it seems a better place? bruce89 14:57, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think it matters much, plus people writing nautilus file manager don't need to pipe link it like this: nautilus file manager it, which helps keep the page sources cleaner. Pro or anti arguments are all pretty minor here. I'd just leave it as it is unless there's a real need to move it. - Motor (talk) 15:03, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
It has been moved, thank you. bruce89 17:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Problems
Why don't you cover the way it locks up X windows —Preceding unsigned comment added by Br0dely (talk • contribs) 14:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
