[Thunar-dev] Interface thoughts

[Erik Harrison]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:15:34 +0100, Francois Le Clainche
<fleclainche at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Tuesday 01 March 2005 à 15:28, Erik Harrison a écrit:
> 
> > Yeah, I know everyone has an opinion, but here is mine anyway.
> >
> > I'd like to point out that I'm looking for a file manager, and haven't
> > found a good one yet, so I'm looking for something I can _use_. My
> > usage patterns are much like Jasper's. I'm specializing in Interaction
> > Design and Human Computer Interaction, and my final paper for
> > graduation here is going to be file managers.
> >
> > First off, I just wonder if anyone has taken a look at or had the
> > opportunity to use the NeXT file manager? If you've used the OS X
> > Finder, then you've used it's wimpy brother. You can see some
> > screenshots and explication here:
> >
> > http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't really like this fm, but isn't the shelf concept as a temporary
> DnD area an original idea, and an eventual good idea for a single-window
> file browser?

The shelf as a temp DnD area was pretty neat. You can see a modern
version of it in PathFinder fm for OS X. It has a "drop stack" which
can be used to replace copy/paste operations


> 
> Cheers
> François
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