Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:23 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > no. Nautilus is for Gnome and Konqueror is for KDE. They were made for
> > the same purpose but for different desktops (although Konqueror doubles
> > as a web browser while nautilus does not.
> 
> My point precisely.  Nautilus is purely a file browser (aiui - noting that
> I'm not a Gnome user).  That should mean, presumably, that it should play
> nice with NFS mounts (and probably CIFS/SAMBA _mounts_) but I'm not at all
> sure it needs to be more aware of the network than that.  Konqueror, otoh,
> is supposed to be completely network aware, making it seamless to use any
> KIO slave as a filesystem.  They're not "made for the same purpose" at all.

Nautilus can't browse the web?  Since when?  It definitely used to be
able to.

I think the separation of web and file browser is a huge usability bug -
one of the nicest features of Windows is that you can browse the web or
your local filesystem from the same app.

Lee