xffm look

Benedikt Meurer Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Mon Apr 21 12:48:25 CEST 2003


On Mon, 21, Apr 2003, Tobias Henle wrote:

> a good friend, which i try to persuade to use xfce, asked me wether it is 
> possible to change the look of xffm or not. he ment that xffm does render 
> the directorys as icons and not as a tree. similar to the rox filer.
> 
> sorry i know that xffm can not do that and i do not want to make this a 
> feature request becourse i know it is difficult and you are out of time but 
> i want you to think about this posibility to make xffm more usable for a 
> wider range of people.
> 
> i preffer xffm becourse it allows me to browse the smb net and mount 
> unmount nfs shares and it is a (nearly) complete solution for file 
> management but i do not like trees too! :(

Good point.

> please do not understand this as a cutup i think xffm is already the best 
> gui file  manager for linux (maybe for unix do not know if there is a 
> alternativ one).

dtfile is a really good file manager for Unix.

> cya
> 	-toby

regards,
Benedikt

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