Hi!

> > > MC could have become a modular project,
> > > with an UI-independent core,
> >
> > Hardly. "core" pretty much has to be multithreaded in order for good
> > gnome frontend to be feasible. Noone cares about threads in text
> > edition, because text edition does not have concept of windows.
> 
> Still the text edition has a concept of background operations. On the
> other hand, there are many single-threaded servers - you can do wonders
> with select().

Yes, but mc core would need heavy modifications even to use
select(). [And btw you can't do operations such as rename non-blocking
without threads.]

> > Okay, it could be done, but it would require big changes. (So big that
> > probably starting from scratch is easier.)
> 
> Nautilus must be that program.

I do not think so.
                                                                Pavel
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The best software in life is free (not shareware)!              Pavel
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