On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, shane wrote: .......................................... > > 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. > > me either, gnome is intolerable ;-) And so is KDE ;-) >......................................... > i wonder if you install with another file manager and uncheck nautilus what > happens? I had not appreciated the connection between Gnome and Nautilus. Apologies to Mandrake. Will try that next time. Basically though, I don't want file managers on my system. > > to answer though, i think naut is the assumed "newbie friendly" manager in > gnome, and mandrake does try to be newbie friendly. i mean hey, they could > be gentoo and boot you to commandline with no gui installed and expect you > to do everything the hardway. :-D Since it can be disabled (at least in Gnome 1.4) will have to put up with it I guess. Thanks to everybody for their comments.
Len Lawrence
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