xffm, drag'n'drop and other stuff

[Foxy]

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Foxy wrote:
>
>   
>> I have been using xffm from svn for a while already, though mostly for
>> samba connection. I found it very handy to mount samba drives with xfsamba.
>>     
>
> Double clicking on remote samba files for svn was not working until 
> yesterday.
>
>   
>> Strangely enough I do not use xffm for file management. The main reason
>> is that it seems not to support drag'n'drop in icon view mode and I
>> cannot select several files with a mouse. I wonder if I just did not
>> enable this feature or it is not implemented at all.
>>
>>     
>
> You can select multiple files by pressing control and clicking on them one 
> at a time or by button press and dragging mouse to draw rectangle. Hmm... 
> seems to be broken under single click navigation. This will be fixed very 
> soon.
>
>   
>> Also I do not like he way it shortens long file names. I wonder if it's
>> possible to switch it off.
>>
>>     
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> Nope. Cannot be switched off because icons are grid located for speed. 
> Perhaps instead of shortening, the font size should be reduced... In the 
> deskview gui name are not shortened at all because there is no grid.
>
>   
>> Another thing, I like to open dirs with a single click. It works fine in
>> Icon View, but does not in detailed view. Is it a bug or a feature? Or
>> something is not finished yet? Or I just did not compile the whole thing
>> properly?
>>     
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> Nope. Single click navigation is not available for detailed view. Detailed 
> view is the legacy GUI and is burdened by bloat imposed by gtk-treeview. A 
> separate gui without nested tree-levels would be necessary for this kind 
> of single click navigation.
>
>   
>> Apart from that it is the best file manager I've ever used.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Same here ;-)
>
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>
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drag'n'drop works with the middle-button... it's odd... I have not tried 
the latest commit though...