GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 Development Release

1. It means that you can copy CDs in general by right-clicking from the context menu of the CDROM icon. I can't say for sure because I don't have it installed, but that's what I gathered. I think that's the natural way to implement this function.

1.2 I don't think so, but did you try serpentine? It's surprisingly nice, basically just a container in which you drop files and a nice widget to show you how much space is left. One could argue that it could just as well be a special Nautilus view, but the difference is not huge.

>1. It means that you can copy CDs in general by right-clicking from the context menu of the CDROM icon.

sounds ok, but you say "copy CDs in general by right-clicking" this works for data-CDs but audio-CD normally doesn't get mounted so how will you right-click a audio-cd?

>1.2 I don't think so, but did you try serpentine? It's surprisingly nice, basically just a container in which you drop files and a nice widget to show you how much space is left.

yes, it's really nice. Such a container generally for nautilus-burn would also solve my point 3.1.

For the record, the dropdown is not for the Pictures folder, it's for the Paul folder (notice the highlighted dropdown arrow beside Paul).
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Those 2 screenshots really make Gnome look like it's from the dark ages.

Sometimes it's best to look at Microsoft and learn from them and how they succeed. Clearly look and feel are *highly* important considerations for them, which means that they probably spent millions in research on what the consumers want and that's what they came up with. Welp...agree or not, they're winning by some considerable margins.

I think Linux should learn from them and make look and feel just as important as adding new features. I mean...just look at those 2 screenshots. You can't tell me that you'd rather work with the Gnome one.

Keep in mind that Clearlooks still does not use a single pixmap. With Gtk 2.8 we can now use Cairo drawing functions, which is a big advantage. Only performance will suffer, temporarily at least... Now we just need some really awesome artists to through the mockups at us. :) The difficult part isn't to design something fancy, the difficult part is to design something fancy that doesn't piss you off after using it for a long time.

when i see these 2 shots, i really prefer the nautilus path bar than the windows one. Why ? Wimply because the windows file manager has too many options and possibiliies which makes it looking like a Super Midnight Commander which looks really awful. There is 3 or 4 ways to do the same thing, which is really useless. Sincerly, i prefer nautilus' sobriety.
Anyway, that's my point of view, and that is why i prefer gnome.

As much as I *hate* Microsoft and anything to do with windozer, I think Vista looks quite neat with all its eye-candy, which I don't get on my Linux machine =( And the way they put up the location bar is actually quite handy. The location bar as it is has always been worse than the actual text entry, but such an approach as Microsoft came up with would make things better.
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, that's eye-candy of two years from now. (They say late 2006, I'm sure it'll be 2007 before its out). That eye candy requires a top-of-the-line PC by today's standards, 512MB of RAM, etc. The reason they've got it out now is because its both unopimized, and unstable (I'm guessing).

Not much consolodation, but its something ;-)

Err no, actually the idea came from Eugenia and she got the idea from the Pathfinder application for the Mac. There is absolutely nothing wrong with copying good ideas.

That could well be the root of a similar feature, but it's not where the file-selector got it from. :P The point is that almost everything is copied from somewhere or just has been done before, it's totally unnecessary to constantly point that out.