Linked by Robert Trembath on Wed 18th Feb 2004 01:29 UTC
Couldn't stop myself from trying the new Fedora 2-test1 release, even if it is an alpha! The 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.5 all in the same release was just to much candy to turn away from; too bad it's more sour rather than sweet at this (beta) point than I would have expected.
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Well, the bad news for those about the new Nautilus is that the awful rumors are true. The "opening-in-a-new-window" and lack of toolbar controls is entirely intended, and the maintainers of the project intend to force users in this new "spatial nautilus" direction by not giving them a visible option to change it. True, "Browse this folder" will bring back the old interface, but is it so hard to put this in Preferences, seeing as how EVERY SINGLE NAUTILUS USER up til now expects this behavior? I want to click once on a folder to browse it, not right-click as an extra step every single time.
Check out the discussion on fedora-test-list, where Alexander (apologies for misspelling) makes a rather stubborn and defiant case for his new spatial version, and intentions of forcing users to use this over (for some) the preferred older style.
And what a disaster the new GTKFileChooser is! An improvement is desperately needed, but an improvement this is not. Eugenia has displayed some prototypes of her own that I pray are taken into deep consideration.
I came back to Gnome with 2.0, but am horrified with what's going on. Ximian, save us! Otherwise, I may have to take a hard look at KDE 3.2.