the file manager

[brett holcomb]

Don't get me wrong.  Xfce is the best of window managers 
I've used and it's great - light, easy to use.  However, 
going from 3 to 4 there are changes in many areas that 
break the way we're used to doing things.  Some are for 
the better, some not so good.  If it's too bad I'll find a 
substitute such as Rox for xffm.

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
  Amarpreet Rattan <arattan at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>I never used the xfce so I don't know what it was like. 
> I REALLY like
>xfce4.  I was using fluxbox before this and gnome before 
>that.  As I said,
>I left gnome because it was too slow.  I heard about 
>fluxbox and tried it
>and liked it.  It is faster than xfce, but very 
>minimalist.  I find the
>xfce is a nice compromise;  it is almost as fast as 
>fluxbox et al. but it
>has a lot of functionality.
>
>Anyways, the problem with xffm isn't a huge concern, I 
>don't often use a
>gui to manage files.  But when I do it, I want it to 
>work.  I do like xffm
>for its speed though.  You can hear nautilus thundering 
>slowly through
>your desktop :)
>
>My impression is that these features isn't very 
>complicated and if it is
>not already in xffm, it could be put there.
>
>amps
>
>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, brett holcomb wrote:
>
>> Glad to see it wasn't just me <G>!  The file manager in
>> xfce 4 made some major changes that break the way I work
>> (and I believe many others) so I'm having to relearn -
>> although I'd like the old way back.  Not only does
>> move/copy multiple files not work I don't like the right
>> click menu layout.  Many of the most commonly used
>> functions (open, etc.) are on a submenu of the right 
>>click
>> menu which is not a real good layout.  However, much of
>> xfce4 is an improvement and I still like xfce4 better 
>>than
>> some other window managers.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
>>   Amarpreet Rattan <arattan at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> >by the way, I just looked at the faq and pressing ctrl
>> >while I right click
>> >on the last file doesn't work.
>> >
>> >amps
>> >
>> >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Amarpreet Rattan wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> hello all,
>> >>
>> >> Well, i have been using xfce for about a week and I
>> >>think that it is
>> >> great.  It seems like you get all the (useful)
>> >>functionality of
>> >> gnome/kde without it bogging the system down.  I was
>> >>getting a little sick
>> >> and tired of watching gnome2 by slower on my brand 
>>new
>> >>machine than gnome1
>> >> is on a 5 year old machine.
>> >>
>> >> Anyways, I have some questions/comments.  To me, it
>> >>appears that the only
>> >> drawback is xffm (the file manager).  I guess that i
>> >>have built up some
>> >> gui habits that don't seem to translate well in the 
>>file
>> >>manager and I am
>> >> having some difficulty customizing it.  If someone 
>>could
>> >>help me with the
>> >> following problems that would be great.
>> >>
>> >> 1)  if you shift and highlight more than 1 file and 
>>then
>> >>want to
>> >> move/copy/delete the file, right clicking on the file
>> >>manager seems to
>> >> mess up that selection (i.e. if you highlight files
>> >>a,b,c,d and then right
>> >> click to do something and you happen to be over file 
>>e,
>> >>then a,b,c,d will
>> >> no longer be highlighted and e will get highlighted). 
>> I
>> >>found that the
>> >> way to operate on a group of highlighted files is to 
>>go
>> >>to the toolbar and
>> >> pick 'cut' or something, but that kind of sucks 
>>having
>> >>to go to the
>> >> toolbar.
>> >>
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