OK friends. Time for a rant. <rant> Recently, after every Mandrake install, I have chosen Gnome/Sawfish, as per usual, and have found Nautilus taking over the desktop. Now this is something I am not prepared to tolerate. Straight into Gnome control centre and kill the bastard (beat my head against the wall until I discovered Gnome control centre). But why does it happen? That kind of behaviour is so like Window$ that it makes me shudder. For instance, for years I have been accumulating calendar landscapes which get pasted onto the root window as wallpaper. Do that under nautilus and they disappear, only to appear when nautilus is zapped. And I hate file managers - one of the reasons for loathing Window$ on sight, long before Linux arrived, but Nautilus appears to be one big file management environment. Horrible. One of the wonderful things about Linux is the range of choice, bewildering perhaps, but intoxicating, so why is Mandrake pushing Window$ style environments at us? I want to be able to choose what to run. Mandrake is top of the class for transparent hardware support and for the tools it provides but I would ditch it if it kept on trying to impose a straitjacket on me. </rant>
I would assume that at some point I have chosen to install the Nautilus components, without thinking, but I have definitely never chosen to run it. Sorry folks - just had to get that off my chest. Now hold on while I get my asbestos suit. Cheers Len Lawrence
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