Re: [PLUG] gui file manager recommendations

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Michael Bevilacqua wrote:
> :under Debian or it will take over your desktop. There is probably a way
> to compile it w/o that feature in Gentoo. I just haven't had the time as
> of yet to try.

There is a gconf key that nautilus looks at to determine weather to draw 
the desktop: /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop. This can be set in 
the Nautilus prefs.

Assuming we are talking about gnome2, anyway.

My personal opinion of Nautilus is only so-so. It mostly works (except 
when it crashes), but it puts too much effort into being pretty and not 
enough into being useful. I like the ability to add scripts to a menu and 
have them be passed the current selection.

Konq is pretty nice in general. I haven't used it a lot, but it generally 
seems to do what it is supposed to.

Freshmeat lists more file managers than you can shake a stick at.
http://freshmeat.net/browse/860/?topic_id=860

I still haven't found a file manager that gets in my way as little as the 
BeOS's Tracker and Deskbar did...

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman

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