On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wim De Smet said...
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so
many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the
dust? If devs stick their heads in the
Cybe R. Wizard said...
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But I don't know what you mean by the two pane setup sentence.
Krusader has that by default.
As I said, I use Krusader, but its limited layout options is a good
example of what not to do, imo. IOW, a good example to learn from.
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 14:47 +, marc wrote:
[...]
In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory Opus 8
[1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader folk should
examine. If Linux could get close to just its two pane setup, I would be
a happy man. Add to
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Steffl said...
Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's
the one used to pick application when opening an attachement and
downloading files (it's probably used in other places as well).
Andrei Popescu said...
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Steffl said...
Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's
the one used to pick application when opening an attachement and
downloading files (it's probably used in
Nyizsnyik Ferenc said...
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 14:47 +, marc wrote:
[...]
In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory Opus 8
[1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader folk should
examine. If Linux could get close to just its two pane setup, I
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:32:08 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me Opus 8 is too bloated.
Bloated is one of those spurious apparent criticisms that doesn't
mean anything, though. In any case, why would anyone translate the
bloat when porting functions to Linux?
Maybe I misused the
Andrei Popescu said...
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:32:08 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me Opus 8 is too bloated.
Bloated is one of those spurious apparent criticisms that doesn't
mean anything, though. In any case, why would anyone translate the
bloat when porting functions to
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so
many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the
dust? If devs stick their heads in the sand and ignore developments then
things will atrophy. In fact, in the
Wim De Smet said...
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so
many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the
dust? If devs stick their heads in the sand and ignore developments then
things
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On 01/11/07 14:52, marc wrote:
Wim De Smet said...
On 1/11/07, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I think what you should really do right now is scratch that
itch and build your own file manager.
LOL The cry of the true conservative. At least
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on
machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds.
system:
debian unstable
icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1
pentium 2.4
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:53 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
[...]
Seems like the problem is getting mime type (as mentioned here
before) or something of that nature...
erik
It would be nice if it was possible to turn this feature off.
I really don't need the
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But I don't know what you mean by the two pane setup sentence.
Krusader has that by default.
As I said, I use Krusader, but its limited layout options is a good
example of what not to do, imo. IOW, a good example to learn from.
Have any of you tried xfe?
-reversible ways. This means a lot of users get
unhappy at the way the interface gets dumber and dumber at every new
release.
2. Broken, stupid, non/badly-engineered design on the underlying code is
becoming more and more common on the desktop environments. The GNOME
file-picker is a fine example
Wim De Smet wrote:
... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ...
indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in
those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing
power not to mention disk I/O which I'm just not seeing.
it takes few minutes to open
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on
machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds.
system:
debian unstable
icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1
pentium 2.4 GHz
1GB RAM
Erik Steffl said...
Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the
one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading
files (it's probably used in other places as well).
The dialog has two parts - left part has shortcut to user home dir,
On 1/10/07, Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wim De Smet wrote:
... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ...
indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in
those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing
power not to mention disk I/O which I'm
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory
Opus 8 [1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader
folk should examine. If Linux could get close to just its two pane
setup, I would be a
Liam O'Toole said...
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:47:52 -
marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
In passing, I'll mention that the Windows' file manager Directory
Opus 8 [1] is something that the Nautilus, Konqueror and Krusader
folk should examine. If Linux could get close to just its two
On 1/5/07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wim De Smet wrote:
You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every
file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've
noticed it does list all files in a directory on the path you type
(which on a system with
On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote:
Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of
it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to
user.js:
The GNOME file picker is so bad, I'd rather run Firefox on Windows XP in
Qemu than use
On 1/5/07, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote:
Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of
it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to
user.js:
The GNOME file picker is so bad
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote:
To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway.
I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on
the older one, which had a bit too many big buttons and a bit too
little functionality.
No, you got it wrong.
On 1/5/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote:
To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway.
I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on
the older one, which had a bit too many big
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 08:43 -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote:
Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of
it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to
user.js:
The GNOME file picker
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:38:15PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
I don't really like the concept of file pickers at all, but as far as
they go, the GNOME one is probably one of the best ones I've used.
Could you list some advantages that counter the Requires three times as
many clicks as all
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:42 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
Could you list some advantages that counter the Requires three times as
many clicks as all other file pickers problem? Oh, and the displays
information in tiny subwindows that don't relate to each other in obvious
ways problem? Or the What
Wim De Smet wrote:
You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every
file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've
noticed it does list all files in a directory on the path you type
(which on a system with sufficient ram only goes slow once but is
indeed
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the
gnome file picker for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop,
not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't
have a command line to type in doesn't show dotfiles.
I am looking for a way to set
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the
gnome file picker for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop,
not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't
have a command line to type
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the
gnome file picker for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop,
not gnome). I find this incredibly
Mark Roach wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the
gnome file picker for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop,
not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't
have a command line
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