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The GNOME Journal, September Edition

Submitted by claus on Fri, 2005-09-16 06:04. GNOME
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The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. It
features a look at GNOME's Summer of Code participation by Julien Gilli
and Akbar Pasha, Peer to Peer document collaboration with GOCollab by
Claus Schwarm and Martin Sevior, an introduction to the Banshee Music
Player by Ken VanDine, the description of a GNOME deployment in Austria
by Murray Cumming, Remote Desktop Administration using Vino by Marcus
Bauer, and notes on translating GNOME by Runa Bhattacharjee.

The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by
the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

re: exactly 1 app

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-09-21 15:07.

Of the six apps you mention, I only use one: firefox. It does, indeed, seem to load files from smb:// urls via gnome-vfs. It breaks, on the other hand, when some plugin needs the file, or if you try to use the open dialog. So "working" is perhaps stretching it a bit.

I have 2235 programs in /usr/bin. By your account, seven work with gnome-vfs. My experience from nautilus tells me that it works poorly, if at all.

smbfs, on the other hand, works all the time, with all 2235. It is also an order of magnitude faster than gnome-vfs.

So why should Gnome try to force me to use something so fundamentally inferior?

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