Re: [dev] ideas on suckless file manager

From: pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:35:02 +0200

Another filemanager is vim. But i dont really use it. Shell is superior in all aspects.

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
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