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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:58:15AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > Another area of differentiation between the two environments is the > bundled file manager. I find GNOME's Nautilus intuitive and adequate, > although nothing special. However I've noticed it can also chew up a ton > up memory (hundreds of megabytes), so if I stuck with GNOME I'd likely > seek an alternate file manager. On the KDE side I've read how the file > manager pops up a dialog asking you whether you want to copy/move/link a > dragged-and-dropped file, which sounds annoying. So again, I'd likely > seek an alternate file manager. > > Any recommendations for alternate file managers? Yes -- the command line. I've never met a graphical file manager which was as quick, precise, and flexible as the cli shell of your choice. Learning just a few tricks -- for loops, find and xargs -- will pay off immensely. No one wants to hear that, of course... -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
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