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diff --git a/content/posts/2007-04-06-catering-to-the-lowest-common-denominator.html b/content/posts/2007-04-06-catering-to-the-lowest-common-denominator.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34f7e48 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2007-04-06-catering-to-the-lowest-common-denominator.html @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +date: "2007-04-06T15:56:59Z" +title: Catering to the Lowest Common Denominator +--- + +<p>The <a href="http://kde.org/">KDE</a> team is working on a Dolphin, a new next-generation file +manager. How many next-generation file managers do we need, anyway? +They still haven't finished fixing the broken ones from the last +generation. I just read +<a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070405-afirst-look-at-dolphin-the-kde-4-file-manager.html">this Ars Technica preview</a> of Dolphin, which aptly states:</p> + +<blockquote> + <p>In many respects, Dolphin is reminiscent of the Nautilus file browser + from the GNOME desktop environment.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>Nautilus's defining characteristic has always been the uncanny ability +to waste a colossal amount of screen real estate to convey irrelevant or +redundant information. Believe it or not, some of the things <a href="http://pablotron.org/reviews/nautilus-PR2/" title="2001 review of the Nautilus file manager.">I wrote +about in 2001</a> still haven't been +fixed. </p> + +<p>But hey, everything old is new again, right? Check out the +awesomely efficient use of screen space in this Dolphin picture:</p> + +<p> +<img src='http://pablotron.org/gallery/misc/kde_dolphin4.jpg' + width='600' height='381' border='0' title='new kde file manager' + alt='new kde file manager'/></p> + + |