[CLUG] Nautilus 1.0 is out

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "TM" == Twomey Mark <Twomey_Mark at emc.com> writes:

    TM> Taking the rather lazy route tying it to GNOME.

Just like the Konqueror developers did, tying it to KDE.

    TM> I suppose they don't want to have to reinvent the wheel but I
    TM> would have expected a company filled with old Apple/General
    TM> Magic and NeXT heads to have developed their own GUI from the
    TM> ground up.

I think that this group of people, who have tried to reinvent the
wheel twice or three times, just said: "We have limited personnel and
high expectations.  Let's use as much of the existing infrastructure
as we can and *build* this thing."  Which they did.

    TM> Sure it would have added Mozilla style development time to the
    TM> project but it would be the only way to guarantee consistency
    TM> and avoid the stupid HUI guidelines that some coder lifted
    TM> whole from the Microsoft UI guidelines and implemented in a
    TM> half ass'd way.

If Nautilus *wasn't* filled with ex-Apple, GM and NeXT people, would
you even consider allowing this leeway?  Of course not.

    TM> Hertzfeld is keynoting at MacHack this year [Coding, Keynotes
    TM> from Uber-Techies, Ice Cream, Movies, big,big,big dinners and
    TM> Mac/NeXT/BSD geeks screaming at each other while they race to
    TM> finish their hacks before the 72 hour deadline. Starts at
    TM> 12:01am Wednesday finishes 12:01am Sunday, nothing ever closes
    TM> and they book the entire hotel out so there's no other guests
    TM> to disturb.], so I'm sure they'll put him through the meat
    TM> grinder and get more about the future of Nautilus.

I can tell you the near-term future of Nautilus right now, with no
screaming involved: fix bugs.

    TM> Then there's the fact that I'm not so sure it's smart to tie
    TM> your code to a project that seriously considers the mad
    TM> non-techie rantings of Miguel de Icaza.

I am staggered into silence by the relevance of this statement.

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