I thought this should be implicit when using gnome-vfs. After much tearing out of hair I finally remembered I hadn't run make check on OAF - and guess what, OAF just doesn't work. And I have absolutely no idea why not. Is slow refreshing list. List mode is uncomfortable, big.
Nautilus goes for bad, very very bad ways.
If my english speech was better I'd say more things. Now launch a browser window and look for something. People used to point at Windows for being big, bloated and slow. They were there with Nautilus 0.8, but completely gone in 1.0. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.