integrated internet browser

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

El jue, 25-08-2005 a las 20:42 +0200, Alexander Toresson escribió:
> On 8/25/05, James Tappin <james at tappin.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 August 2005 18:07, Erik Harrison wrote:
> > EH> Yeah, if the two things you do most are file browsing and web
> > EH> browsing, and the most common thing you do is switch from your file
> > EH> browser to a newly typed URL which isn't in your bookmarks in your
> > EH> webbrowser, then this is a time saver.
> > EH>
> > EH> The issue is of course is that the UI should make it easy to switch
> > EH> between the two (web browser/file browser) but they should be seperate
> > EH> applications.
> > EH>
> > EH> Shoehorning the two together results in either konqui (which is
> > EH> unusable) or Explorer (which changes it's entire UI depending on the
> > EH> mode). And that's just from a UI perspective.
> > EH>
> > 
> > I'd dispute the claim that konqui is unusable. IMHO the most useful facility
> > for combining web/file browsing is the ability to drag a web link into a file
> > manager to download it where you want (rather than having to faff about with
> > a download dialogue to get it in the right place). If xffm could accept files
> > from firefox in that way then I'd be happy.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> 
> I tried this in Rox filer, and it launched wget in a terminal to
> download the file into the directory you dropped it into. With xffm,
> nothing happened.

Rather easy to implement with very little extra code. You can expect to
find the call to wget in xffm-4.3.4.

 
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Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org>