Re: On the future of MC.

[=?unknown-8bit?b?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Things are worse in other countries. The GNOME edition of MC as
> a file manager is not ideal and is far from perfect, but
> currently there is no solution for those small machines that
> want to run a graphical user interface.

GNOME: http://j.a.l.free.fr/sarah.html

GTK+: http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/

Last time I used gentoo it was much better and practical than
GMC. I didn't try Sarah.

> I do not expect this to go on forever, rather I would expect to
> either Nautilus to become smaller and faster, or another small
> file manager for GNOME to appear for users that are running on
> systems with a limited set of resources.

I don't think Nautilus will ever run in Spain (200 Pentium MMX
computers with 32 to 64 megs of memory.).

> I do not expect this to go on forever, rather I would expect to
> either Nautilus to become smaller and faster, or another small
> file manager for GNOME to appear for users that are running on
> systems with a limited set of resources.

Why don't you just maintain the GNOME edition and release GNU
Midnight Commander 5.5 or 6.0, the "fork", without any traces
of GMC ? It's very easy.

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