nautilus:
I installed Fedora Core 2 on my desktop at home this weekend, so I’m finally running GNOME 2.6 everywhere, including work, on the go with my notebook, and at home. After using spatial nautilus for a month or so now at work, it feels like somehow my desktop and home directory have become much less cluttered. I think I found file management to be cumbersome with a browser, so I tended to use it for, well, browsing and finding files amongst the clutter, rather than using it to clean things up and keep them clean. When I wanted to manage files I used to use the command line more than anything and on the command line I didn’t mind the clutter so much. You can see a lot of files on one screen, and even more when you have commands like find, grep, etc. I still use the command line, and occasionally the nautilus browser when it’s appropriate, but I’m finding that 90% of the time, I’m just a click or two away from what I need with the spatial model. And moving/copying files around is so much easier when each window is a folder. The right click->open in new window and copy/paste metaphors just always seemed like horrible, horrible usability kludges to get around the fact that a browser isn’t the best model for file management.
mono/woodpusher:
So Beta 2 is out and I still haven’t done any work on Woodpusher in ages. A few people have asked me about why it’s stagnating and the answer is that I’ve been too busy with work, my sister having a baby, friends moving, and trying to maintain some semblance of a life. The last time I looked at it the thing wouldn’t even compile against the latest mono and gtk#, but I promise, I will be working on it soon. I’ll at least get it compiling by Mono 1.0. 
And I’ll make some sort of 0.1 release for the world to laugh at.
that semblance of a life i was mentioning earlier:
I spent time with friends this weekend, sitting outside enjoying drinks and the cool nights because, as Jack Kerouac said, “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones
who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of all things at the same time, who never yawn or say a
commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous
yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in
the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and
everybody goes ‘Awww!’ “
Tags: GNOME
June 8th, 2004 at 4:45 am
Thats funny - I read “On the road” again a few days ago. ‘Tis a most excellent read.
June 8th, 2004 at 10:57 am
I’ve only read parts of it, but it’s on my list of books to read all the way through. I love the writing style.