From freedesktop-dbus  Wed Jul 05 04:07:43 2023
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:07:43 +0000
To: freedesktop-dbus
Subject: Re: How to work with Nemo file manager?
Message-Id: <2689701.mvXUDI8C0e () tjmaciei-mobl5>
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On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 13:56:05 PDT Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:51:10 -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > First, why Nemo? What if the user doesn't use Nemo? I have no idea
> > what it is, aside from a character who got lost in a kids movie and
> > his dad had to look find him.
>=20
> The reference goes a bit deeper than some random American media
> company. I=E2=80=99m assuming this reference is to a derivative of the Na=
utilus
> file manager. And the connection between both names comes from Jules
> Verne=E2=80=99s novel =E2=80=9C20,000 Leagues Under The Sea=E2=80=9D. =E2=
=80=9CNautilus=E2=80=9D was the name of
> the (futuristic, for its time) submarine, and =E2=80=9CNemo=E2=80=9D was =
the name used
> by its captain. But that was just a pseudonym, a Latin word meaning
> =E2=80=9Cnobody=E2=80=9D.

Ah, Captain Nemo. Of course, now the analogy makes sense.

But I didn't remember *Nautilus* in the first place. I thought the file man=
ager=20
was still called Midnight Commander or some variant thereof.

=2D-=20
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering