G'day,

I am migrating from Gnome to the KDE GUI and am not comfortable with the Konqueror file manager in KDE as it aint as customizable as nautilus was in Gnome. can anyone tell me how i can run Nautulus in KDE an dset it as my default File manager ?

Thanks

Racking my brain on that one...

Not in my experience, is all I can say...

Not really sure how you can do this in KDE with devices and links to locations, nor do I think this is possible, generally. For things on your desktop like your Home icon, which is basically a link to an application, you can change the execute command to use nautilus. For things that would be links to locations (like some directory on your hard drive) you can create links to applications instead and change the execute command to nautilus and the directory you want nautilus to open. Actually you can do the same thing for your mounted hard drives too. First you'll need to disable 'Enable dynamic desktop devices' in kcontrol and delete your mounted drives icons on your desktop and then create links to applications and change the execute commands to use nautilus to open up a mounted drive's location.

Anyhoo, a couple of ideas, but it does seem to be quite a bit of work. But I think you can make it do what you want although, IMO, it would probably be easier to just use konqueror, lolol.

You could create a launcher for nautilus on your desktop (desktop icon) and start nautilus whenever you want. I am not sure if there is any other way to make it the default in KDE. It will work fine, but may be a bit slower than when its running in GNOME. Persoanlly I think Konqueror is more customisable and feature rich when compared to Nautilus. Maybe you need to tinker around with it a bit more so that you get used to it.

yeah, it will definately open up slower when you first run it. But the start up should be faster after all the things that need to be loaded are loaded. As far as actual performance goes, I couldn't really say what performance hits you'd experience, if any.

does nautilis have an address bar? it seems to work faster than konquerer.

wow... again, racking brain on that one...

anyway, nautilus for me has an address bar... maybe you hid yours. Check the View menu bar and see if you have something like a 'Show location bar' option. Click on it if you do.

I've just remembered that you can run "nautilus --no-desktop" and nautilus will only load the file manager. This should make it start a bit faster if using it outside GNOME.

the one thing i dint see in KDE, it wont let u customize icons with emblems, wont let u run .rpm files automatically like gnome ( t opens tem up with archive manager instead, whats up with that ? ) and a few other things. can you suggest how to open the .rpm files automatically as it is done in gnome ?

thanx again

Those are not KDE specific problems, its just how the distro configured KDE by default. You can change your rpm file associations by going to Kcontrol -> KDE Components -> File Associations -> Search for "rpm". In the Application preference box add "system-config-packages" and move it right to the top. I am not sure about the emblem issue, I don't think thats possible in KDE, but I could be wrong. One thing you should remember is that Redhat/Fedora don't really do justice to KDE, they make it act and behave too much like GNOME. If you would really like a proper KDE desktop you may have to do a lot of tinkering or maybe try Suse or Mandriva.