GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 (2.7.92)

"Open with..." that looks really familiar. Where have I seen that before?

I use linux because I believe that power is usability. Nautilus never made my life any easier, it made everyday tasks more time consuming. We need a new user interface idiom that gives the user as much control as the command line does, while fully utilizing the expressive strength of a graphical medium. If I wanted to, for instance, find out the cumulative size in kilobytes of all files edited in the last 24 hours, whose names have numbers in them, within a particular directory structure, how would I do that using nautilus? Or if I wanted to make a tgz containing all the files within a directory structure that have a particluar extension and a particular sequence of letters in their names, and then I wanted to send the whole thing to a remote system, how can nautilus help me to do that?

How bout something simple... how can I filter a directory listing so it only shows files with a particular extension, using nautilus?

All these tasks, which can be done with extreme ease from the command line, become tedious ordeals when one tries to do them with nautilus.

Nautilus doesnt meet any of my needs or expectations. I can see no compelling reason to use it, and I question the intelligence/sanity of anybody who feels that it is adequate, by any set of standards.

Metacity places grotesque limitations on the kind of actions you can associate keyboard shortcuts with. Not only did sawfish come with a vast and nearly comprehensive collection of built-in actions that could be bound to keyboard shortcuts, but if I wanted more, I could easily add them using lisp without having to modify or recompile the program itself. Why are people using metacity?

Seriously, look at the state of things. The gnome Open dialogue doesnt even have an input field built into it anymore. What kind of moron thinks that a change like that constitutes a 'usability' enhancement?