the file manager

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:45, brett holcomb wrote:
> 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.

Rox and xffm are two different things. Rox is *not* tree oriented. Xffm
is *not* an icon view. Most people like like icon views. Some people
have too many files for icon views to be practical. Maybe some day
Thomas Leonard will join the xfce team and provide an icon view fm for
the xfce environment to compliment xffm. Or maybe somebody else will
start contributing time and code... You never know... 

> 
> 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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