xffm

[David Fraser]

edscott wilson garcia wrote:

>El sáb, 29-01-2005 a las 18:34 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone escribió:
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>>>Xfce doesn't have to be a geek toy. The new features added to GTK+ 2.6 
>>>have long been present in KDE, and some in GNOME. A few of these 
>>>features were moved from the GNOME libraries into GTK+.  GtkIconView 
>>>is one,  it's a very useful widget and one that Xffm badly needs (I 
>>>believe an icon view for xffm is already being worked on). Trying to 
>>>navigate a huge filing system like Linux with a single 
>>>expandable/collapsable file tree is cumbersome (very OS/2-ish) and not 
>>>very user friendly.  (Sorry, no offence intended.)
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>>Well, for this specific example, perhaps Xffm should be moved out of the 
>>Xfce core and have its own release schedule?  That way, Edscott can 
>>depend on whatever makes the most sense for Xffm, and not be tied into 
>>the core Xfce desktop's requirements, which, IMHO, shouldn't be complex 
>>enough to need too many advanced features.  Something that's considered 
>>a "core" should be just that, a core.  Having said that, a desktop icons 
>>plugin/extension for Xfdesktop would certainly need some kind of icon 
>>view, so the "core" line is a bit blurred.
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>Bit OT, but xffm does not require more than 2.2 for the iconview, so it
>does not have any special requirements in this sense. 
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>But yes, the xffm treview front-end is much too geeky and not too
>appealing to the ordinary user. This should change with a simpler
>iconview as the "core" front-end. Local file operations should be core,
>maybe not other stuff like smb-network (which can be packaged separately
>since it is a plugin).
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To be honest, I still haven't been able to work out how to use xffm and 
I'm a geek :-)
I felt it was my duty to read the documentation. After having read it, 
xffm still doesn't fit with my brain... (no offense, edscott, your brain 
must be much superior :-))
Is there any more standard file manager that people can recommend for 
use with xfce?

David