Re: [TCLUG:20497] .debs available for Nautilus

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

^chewie wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:11PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > This may be common knowledge for every other Debian user, but I thought I'd
> > mention that I saw that there are .debs abailable for Nautilus. If you want
> > to get the latest releast, put the following in sources.list:
> 
> Thanks, Tim!  Great info! ;-)  You know what's scary about all this, though?
> My desktop is starting to look like Microsoft!

Really?  You think so?  I thought it was looking more and more like
OS/2.. ;-)

Maybe it's also possible with Windows (probably, but I haven't seen it),
but you can build special DLLs for OS/2's graphical shell where you can
display the components of a particular directory in a different way --
the effect was much like what the Bonobo components do today (well, it
looked pretty much the same, at least).  If you had a directory of
images, it could be displayed like a contact sheet.

Doing that today with Nautilus on my 375 Mhz box is bliss (even though
it's still dreadfully slow), when I remember how bad it was when I only
had a quarter the clockspeed (and 256 colors...)

OS/2 was actually quite good at handling different media types, though
it wasn't very fast about it.  I believe it actually had a decent way of
handling the different image, movie, and sound formats with DLL plugins
that did a good job of autodetecting the file format (MS at the time was
still praying that the filename extension was correct, and I wouldn't be
surprised if they still do that today).  Unfortunately, they couldn't
get enough companies to produce OS/2 media plugins, so it only supported
a fairly small set of media types..

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