Present Perfect

pfremy

This is the last I'm going to write about this matter since I'd rather spend my time coding what you think doesn't work instead of talking about it. The only reason I do write this is because there are people who might fall into believing what you write.

No, it was not obvious that you were *only* talking about the old nautilus. You employ a common rhetoric trick in which you start off by talking about something, then change your use of past tense to present and make the reader believe you are still talking about the same thing.

Your latest entry starts off by saying "it is clear that I am talking about 1.0 nautilus", and it ends by saying "Not only do I find evolution more useful than Nautilus, it also integrates properly with Gnome."

I presume your last point to be about current Nautilus, and the point is wrong. I like both evolution and nautilus. Of the two, Nautilus is currently better integrated. It uses Gnome 2 ! Evolution does not. And current-day Nautilus DOES integrate with Gnome 2. It handles the desktop by default, for crying out loud.

ANY integration could ALWAYS be stronger that it is. It is a silly point to make.

You are free to question if Gnome should have taken nautilus as a core component. You think no, and the Gnome people and nautilus developers obviously thought "yes". But you are just as free to start a diatribe about multitasking in MS-DOS 3.11. Just don't try passing it off as a reason to throw out Windows 2000. It looks stupid.

Also, you forget that there would probably not be a great file manager for Gnome today if not for Eazel.

So if I compare what the nautilus people have to show for their efforts (a speedy, nice, extensible, integrated file manager - and I am talking about Nautilus 2 here in case you were wondering) and I'm looking at what you have to offer (three silly diary entries that were more of a useless exercise in flawed rhetoric than anything else) and I know who of the two earned my respect.

If all the time your only intention was to talk about nautilus 1.0 without passing it off as criticism on nautilus 2.0, then yes, you need to work on your language skills. Also, check the calendar, because you're at least two years late.

I'd advise you to drop the subject until you gave nautilus 2.0 a try. I'll drop the subject regardless from now on, there's no use in arguing with someone who makes up their own truths. You are beating a dead horse without making it clear that it is the dead horse you're beating and not the live one.

pfremy This is the last I'm going to write about this matter since I'd rather spend my time coding what you think doesn't work instead of talking about it. The...