A couple of questions from a new user

[Sven Wagschal]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:

> Good advice. I changed my preferences to this too.
> 
> Can you recommend any other file browser for Gnome? Is there anything that works
> like that one in Mac osx wheren the folders expand to the right?
> I liked the feature in KDE where you could split the window vertically although
> in general I didn't like the Konquerer.

Being an old time Mac user with quite a few compacts with System 6 and 7 
here, I am quite fond of spatial mode and use it on the one Ubuntu box I 
have to maintain, too. As long as I don't need to delve into the depths 
of the other directories, I hardly ever use a browser. For the home 
directory spatial mode is handier (IMHO).

To get the most from spatial, I have activated Gconf-Editor -> Nautilus 
-> Preferences -> Desktop_is_Home_Dir, thus simulating the old Mac-"Your 
Window Manager Is The Computer"-Feeling even a step further.

Since the computer is a public maschine in our library for the students 
to surf the Internet and check their mails, it is easier for them to 
find their downloaded attachments right on the desktop and file them to 
a floppy or an USB stick ... (thus avoiding a non-standard save dialogue 
without a floppy shortcut in a programm not using the new Gnome 
open/save dialogues where they have to find the floppy in /mnt/floppy or 
/media/fd0 or something else).