Re: EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

[Tim]

Tim:
> > e.g. Nautilus is useless as a file manager, it's just a file browser.
> > I'd get rid of it, but it's a part of the whole desktop.  Like the
> > engine behind MSIE is also the Windows desktop.  A problem in it, is
> > an unavoidable problem with everything else.

Kevin Kofler:
> It's called "code reuse". It doesn't make sense to implement file
> browsing multiple times, once for

Yes, I know that.  But the dependencies are being made at too high a
level.  It's the same as things depending on the whole of Firefox,
rather than the gecko engine, because they want some small aspect of it.