On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:09:49 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Not really doable, because then you'd always get
> "application/octect-stream" for every single file in /usr/local/bin,
> /usr/bin, etc.
>
Well... and in this example that would be mostly true (files being
non-e
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:34:32 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dunno what you did to your Gtk+ or KDE, but from my tests, KDE takes
> longer to load directories from cold cache than does the GtkFileChooser
> default implementation. Thunar takes even less time.
>
OpenOffice.o
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:34:32 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dunno what you did to your Gtk+ or KDE, but from my tests, KDE takes
> longer to load directories from cold cache than does the GtkFileChooser
> default implementation. Thunar takes even less time.
>
The time to
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:18:00 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The major problem with /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin is that the MIME code
> has to open, read, close nearly every file, because the filenames
> usually don't contain any known suffixes.
>
Why not analyze the way KDE
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:13:11 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > While testing some volume manager related stuff, I tried to load a large
> > folder from a CD-ROM (the i386 folder from one of my more or less unused
> > Windows 2000 install CDs, which con
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:17:29 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Besides that, for this kind of stuff, dedicated applications are better
> suited. I'm not a big fan of the "let's put everything into the file
> manager" idea.
>
Well, there's a lack of "dedicated applications".
As for plugins for url handlers, it would be a magnificent idea to have a
camera:// interface,
a plugin based on libgphoto2. It would display thumbnails for photos in the
camera's memory,
allow for copying them to local hard drive and deleting from the camera.
What do you think about such an ide
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:52:37 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> So, to continue with the thumbnailing stuff, we have basicly two
> alternatives:
>
> 1) Use thumbnails, like other file managers do, in place of mime icons
> in the icon/details view, scaling them to the appropri
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:51:15 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually Thunar will support two different selection-based mechanisms:
>
> - Left-click dnd performs default operation (usually Copy)
> - Copy/Cut/Paste using the clipboard
>
Can't wait till my exams end, so I'll fe
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:19:58 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > Here's another thought: what's the idea so far as to dragging files? I
> > read somewhere in here that you're considering having a move/copy menu
> > just like rox? I'm against this; I think it shoul
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