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Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better

  • design-by-izo; By Ian Cylkowski (Posted by markg85 on Mar 17, 2010 4:04 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME
There may well be some of you out there who are currently thinking, “It’s not that bad…” to which my response is: in terms of user interface, there are much better file managers available for GNOME than GNOME’s default file manager (two, off the top of my head: Thunar, default for the Xfce Desktop Environment and PCMan File Manager, or PCManFM). Plus, if you’ve ever used a Mac with OS X, then what you’ll be looking at there is the King Of The File Managers. But we can make it better…

Gnome 2.26 - Small review of interesting features

Gnome 2.26 didn't got a lot of attention when it got released. This blog post is reviewing some of the interesting changes in Gnome 2.26 and gives a opinion about them.

Playing ASF streams under Linux (Fedora 10) with mplayer

An article that describes how you can play ASF stream under linux (Fedora 10) and what the results where under the following media players: Totem, VLC, Xine and mplayer. The results are surprising (in a negative way).

Get your microphone working in Ubuntu 9.04 and skype (x64)

This article describes in depth how you can get your microphone working in todays linux distributions. As a extra benefit it's also describing how you can get your microphone working in skype without any pulseaudio hacks/tweaks.