Re: How to work with Nemo file manager?

On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 13:56:05 PDT Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:51:10 -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > First, why Nemo? What if the user doesn't use Nemo? I have no idea
> > what it is, aside from a character who got lost in a kids movie and
> > his dad had to look find him.
> 
> The reference goes a bit deeper than some random American media
> company. I’m assuming this reference is to a derivative of the Nautilus
> file manager. And the connection between both names comes from Jules
> Verne’s novel “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”. “Nautilus” was the name of
> the (futuristic, for its time) submarine, and “Nemo” was the name used
> by its captain. But that was just a pseudonym, a Latin word meaning
> “nobody”.

Ah, Captain Nemo. Of course, now the analogy makes sense.

But I didn't remember *Nautilus* in the first place. I thought the file manager 
was still called Midnight Commander or some variant thereof.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering