On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:45:49PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:33:00PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Not in general, my 'desktop' if you want to call the screen that doesn't show the contents of anything, it a space where I do computery sorts of things.
Hmmmn, mine does stuff.
Er, yes, I think that's what I was saying. Real folders on my desk (if I happened to have any there, which I haven't) don't "do stuff", they just are. However the objects on my screen do "do stuff".
friends). I can't see that it would have taken that long to work out beyond clicking the button labelled Filesystem what it represented to someone familiar with Unix type file system layouts.
What took me a long time was to realise at all that that left hand window was where I could select the directory I wanted to go to.
Which window manager do you use? I'm guessing that it isn't gnome ;) I quite like the way the file manager works and being able to have bookmarks to various parts of the filesystem is handy as it saves me doing lots of point'n'drool^H^H^H^H^Hclick action.
I used xfce until very recently but got fed up with it becoming so (to me) complex so I've changed to fvwm2 which is a pleasant revelation. It's just so simple to configure compared with xfce, not a GUI in sight to get in the way of actually doing things! :-)