Two pane file manager

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Mon Apr 17 04:21:49 CEST 2006


Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
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> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>> Hi Mateusz
>>
>> Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
>> [...]
>>> What's an opinion of XFCE/Thunar developers and users regarding two pane
>>> file manager?
>> Well, xffm does what you want, why would you want to bloat Thunar with 
>> what is in xffm already?
> 
> Hmm, I really don't see in xffm functionality like in TC.
> Excuse me, may be I'm wrong but where I have:
> 
> - - main window (frame) with two panes with detailed listing of directories
> - - navigation between panes with TAB
> - - tabs in every pane
> - - command line input box at the botton that applies executed commands
> to the current directory in pane wifh focus
> 
> This is the main functionality I'm looking for.
> 
> I'd not want to bloat Thunar.
> It could be also fine to to create new file manager based on
> Thunar's code (base engine, plugins framework, etc.) adding
> new two-pane layout.

There are literally dozens of file managers like this -- starting with 
Midnight Commander itself. Search freshmeat.net

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