[Thunar-dev] Re:Interface Thoughts.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>> Just found out about the project via the "xfce weekly update" and am
>> interested in how it will pan out.  I went a browsing through the
>> archive and found a thread dicussing the "NeXt" type file manager.  At
>> work i use a mac and have fallen in love with the column view (NeXT
>> like or so it appears anyway) in the finder. Eg clicking on a folder
>> causes it contents to be dislayed to the right in a new column. It
>> seems there was some discussion about this and i just thought i would
>> add my vote as a end user for this type of file management.  It has
>> provided far and away the easiest and cleanest way to browse the
>> filesystem i have encountered and have been longing for a linux
>> inplementation.
> 
> The interesting thing is that is has the functionality of the gtk 
> filechooser buttons built into the file window.
> 
> The downside is that it's very different from everyting else out there. 
> It would be nice if some good make a python mockup of this, just like 
> the current ones by Benedikt.

I'll try to come up with something during the afternoon. As said 
earlier, there's already FSViewer for Linux/Unix, which is unfortunately 
very buggy.

>> Alas I am a chemist, with only a small amount of C programming skills,
>> so i cannot offer any technical help or whip up some code.  I could
>> probably whip up a mean "hello world" though.
> 
> That's no excuse ;-) You never learn unless you practice.

Heh, IIRC you're a chemist as well Jasper, right? ;-)

>     Jasper

Benedikt