[Thunar-dev] Replied about paths and typing text

[Xiong Jiang]

Even the best GUI (if any) is not almighty. We do need command lines,
face it. And in many situations command line scripting is much quicker
than point-n-click GUI. :)

On 4/16/05, dannym <dannym at xfce.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.04.2005, 10:58 +0200 schrieb Jasper Huijsmans:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Joe Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > I would switch between buttons and text very often. It's great feature
> > > > to let me copy/paste the path from/to command line tools.
> > > >
> > > > Many users will love this.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes!!! Yes!!!  Glad somebody understands!
> > >
> > > I do that all the time.... I also cut/paste the paths from good file
> > > browsers into other program's open dialogs when they have bad open
> > > UI's and make paths hard to reach (old gtk... ukkk).
> > >
> > > Its convenient.
> > >
> >
> > Why would you not use the location bar permanently then?
> >
> > Anyway, selecting/copying an icon in the file manager should put the
> > path on the X PRIMARY clipboard to allow middle-click paste in a terminal, or
> > paste into another open dialog; you don't need a path text entry for that.
> >
> > The need to switch very often indicates to me the design may be wrong.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> >
> > Also, copying and pasting paths to terminals/whatever really doesn't sound
> > like the main function of a file manager to me. I don't think the target user
> > of thunar uses terminals very often.
> 
> Having people switch between file manager and terminal like crazy sounds
> like exactly the thing to avoid actually (and to deliberately sabotage
> too :->). Also, if there will be a "edit>copy" entry in thunar (please
> not... but I mean IF), then you could select a file, go edit>copy, go to
> terminal, paste there (for getting the path to the terminal).
> 
> And the other way around, getting a path from a terminal into thunar,
> type "thunar <path>".
> 
> Note that the path format of the terminal and thunar are incompatible,
> so what is the use of copying+pasting between thunar and terminal either
> way ? (uri as opposed to unix path)
> 
> >
> >       Jasper
> 
> cheers,
>    Danny
> 
> 
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