Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Jul 2009 15:43 UTC
Quite a little interesting tidbit on Planet GNOME today. As we all know, the default file manager for the GNOME desktop is Nautilus. While there's nothing inherently wrong with it, it does have this odd interface where actually more screen space is dedicated to controls and buttons than to the actual part that matters: your files. As part of Ubuntu's Papercuts project, a fix has been worked on.
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I'd really loooove to see some hard numbers showing how GNOME is so bloated compared to XFCE.
I can't comment on bloat of GNOME vs. Xfce. However, I run GNOME's NetworkManager applet under KDE (the KDE one doesn't work well for me) and I'm a bit confused why it loads gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor, some CD burning capability, etc. into my RAM.
I have enough RAM not to care a lot about those nm-applet dependencies. I'm just telling what I observe.
PS: Before anybody mentions it: WiCD doesn't work for me either.
Member since:2005-07-06
hell, while your at it, Dump the bloated Gnome and use XFCE.
I know Xfce only from Xubuntu and at least there it looks almost identical to Ubuntu/GNOME with the only difference being that the default theme is blue instead of brown.
Personally, I don't understand the intention in developing two almost identical DEs when the main difference is a few different apps. It would be like Peter Penz developing his own Qt-based DE just because he didn't like Konqueror. Instead Dolphin was initially a 3rd party KDE 3.x application.
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2008-03-16
So why not just apt-get install thunar, then set it in Gnome as the default file manager?
hell, while your at it, Dump the bloated Gnome and use XFCE.