Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:

> I've never felt the need of seeing files as icons. It's just inneficient
> and useless.
>
> Many years ago i wrote 'canoe' a lightweight filemanager in gtk. I did it
> for the n770.. So clicking on icons is better than Using the shitty onscreen
> keyboard that n770 had
>
> It has some segfaults, and supports icon themes and virtual filesystems
> implemented in shellscript.
>
> Check out the source as always in my http://hg.youterm.com/canoe repo
>
> On 07/06/2011, at 17:00, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach_AT_mailplus.pl> wrote:
>
> >> Xfe,
> >
> > I'm waiting for suckless BonziBUDDY.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Yes, icons are not efficient, but there are cases, when not only you will
use the pc, like a girlfriend, she needs icons and stuff). I think it's a
bad habit of a windows user, to see everything in rows of thumbs. But still
like clicking a video file with a mouse in a file manager, when editing
happens only in console.

-- 
Tian