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GNOME Weekly News 20th to 26th October

Submitted by Uraeus on Mon, 2002-10-28 13:13. GNOME

Another eventfull GNOME Week has gone by and I am happy to bring you another GNOME Summary. This week stories include the new GNOME 2.1 development snapshot,
new eyecandy, art.gnome.org updates, making people happy and much more. Go read the summary at
developer.gnome.org.

Re: GNOME Weekly News 20th to 26th October

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2002-10-28 23:33.

Nautilus is very "heavyweight". The GNOME libraries provide so much functionality already that there's no reason for Nautilus to be so big (is there?). Any core reusable functionality that is in Nautilus that's not already in the GNOME libraries should probably be in the libraries, then surely a much slimmer version of the Nautilus shell could be developed from scratch?

Yes, Nautilus is great. One of its best features is its pluggable views, along with svg themes, mimetype handling, use of gnome-vfs etc. It seems though that all its "cool" functionality is provided by something that is not a core part of the Nautilus shell any more. So should the shell be re-built from scratch to make use of the libraries which have vastly improved since it was started?

I may be way off the mark here, but can somebody with knowledge of Nautilus and gnome-libs internals please explain the true state of things?

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