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Subject:    [kde-promo] Article about Nautilus vs Konqueror
From:       Rinse de Vries <Rinse () daxis ! nl>
Date:       2001-10-13 11:44:30
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Hi,

The Dutch magazine LiNux Magazine (www.linuxmag.nl; info@linuxmag.nl) did an 
article about Nautilus in their latest issue.

To give the users a good view of the capabilities of Nautilus, the author, 
Wim de Smit, compares it with Konqueror. But he fails doing that correctly, 
apparently he never used Konqueror of KFM before in his live.

Here are some statements:
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[..] "The sidebar has 4 buttons: 
1) Help button: This button provides a comfortable access to the man and info 
pages. This is a plus compared to Konqueror, which can't show man-pages.
[..]
Nautilus and Konqueror
Compared to Nautilus, Konqueror is a boring program. Konqueror does not have 
the ability to create its own desktop, to show thumbnails of pictures 
directly in the directory, not the special "view as music" for MP3-files, 
including a player, not even the ability to show man and info pages.
But all this luxury has it price.
Nautilus uses a lot more memory than Konqueror: Konqueror uses 10 MB memory, 
Nautilus (with all the extras turned off) over 50 MB. Creating the desktop 
is kinda unnecessary in environments like KDE or Gnome/SawFish. Both systems 
have a large assortment of decorations and backgrounds. It's only nice for 
who uses a stripped Sawfish of TWM as windowmanager. 
Especially on weak systems the time differences are showing. All those extra 
features can make Nautilus very bloat and heavy on older systems. We tested 
Nautilus on a Pentium 200MMX with 64 MB RAM. This is too light for such a 
program. On that  system loading Nautilus takes up to 25-35 second, Konqueror 
loads in 10-15 seconds.
We also looked at how much time it takes to load a local webpage in both 
browsers. 
Konqueror loaded the page in 10 seconds, Nautilus, with the 'internal viewer' 
(loading a part of Mozilla) took 25 seconds. If Galeon is used as standard 
viewer, it took even 38 seconds to load the page. On modern systems, these 
differences won't be this large, but they will still be there. 
This proofs the benefits of the build-in browser in Konqueror.
Although Konqueror sometimes crashes while browsing, Nautilus appears to be a 
bit unripe on that part. Some of the problems we countered could be caused 
by the hasty, bit unlucky installation of Gnome 1.4 
We expect that the wrinkles in the application will be ironed out in SuSE 7.2.
===

Apparently the author is not aware of the many 'extras' Konqueror has, like 
showing man and info pages, thumbnailing pictures, text and html, 
alphablending, previews of pictures, html, koffice, postscript files, 
browsing on camera's, audiocd's, floppies without mounting, etc.. (and doing 
all this without getting bloat :)

Badly written articles like this are bad advertisement for KDE and the 
magazine who publishes those articles. 
So all you Dutch readers out there, please read the article, get your 
opinion, and inform linux-magazine about these errors.

Kind regards, Rinse

 
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