Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

If you need thumbs use an image viewer. Gqview works quite well for this.

For other file formats i dont see any reason to use thumbnails.

Maybe to easily see the mimetype or file extension more graphically.. Buy if you can sort or glob files like canoe does its much more efficient than having to analyze all the files everytime.

The osx thumbnailing is just as amazing as inception.. You can play media or read pdfs (passing pages) when zooming the thumbnail. Its just unnecesary. But works fast. But certainly. The nextstep filemanager is probably one of thr worst i have ever tried unless you have a multitouch trackpad. So, it sucks even more.

On 07/06/2011, at 17:17, Le Tian <tianeast_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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
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> It has some segfaults, and supports icon themes and virtual filesystems implemented in shellscript.
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> Check out the source as always in my http://hg.youterm.com/canoe repo
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> On 07/06/2011, at 17:00, Jakub Lach <jakub_lach_AT_mailplus.pl> wrote:
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> >> Xfe,
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> > I'm waiting for suckless BonziBUDDY.
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> 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.
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> Tian
Received on Tue Jun 07 2011 - 17:34:00 CEST