On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 14:28, Alan wrote: > > > You can compare this with a picture viewer > > > like gqview. Of course, one could simply open a nautilus window and > > > click on the preferred picture or document. But that's not the same! > > Whats different? > As someone who just started using os/x I can say there's a big > difference :) The preview tool is quick and easy, and allows you to see > a document almost immediately on even a slower machine. I've only > really seen it in use with pdfs and images, but the difference of > starting up "preview" and starting OOo, Word, or photoshop are marked. Right, thats why a file manager that supports components for viewing different file types is what we are really talking about. > Also, with a single tool used for viewing all sorts of different > document types instead of several different programs, it is cached so > there is less lag of loading programs into memory. Which nautilus already does, at least for supported image formats. Once a bonobo component is started it is just a matter of policy (determined by the programmer) how long it sticks around. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
