Re: Icons on the desktop

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> I respect all the hard work you people put into coding this and I
> certainly cannot do it myself.  Looking at gmc, I have to say I wonder
> why the designers did not look at other programs like DFM, which are
> already almost done and do the same thing.  It seems to me that
> grafting MC to do this job was going the hard way. The Linux Explorer 
> might also have been a better example to work against.

Several reasons:

	1.  The file manager needs to use the Gtk toolkit and the
	    Gnome libraries.  Any existing file manager had to be
	    ported to do this task.

	2.  Feature-wise and power-wise I have yet to see a file
	    manager more powerful than MC in the Linux world.  Adding
	    desktop extensions was an easy task compared to adding the
	    features mc had to other file managers.

	3.  MC had already been ported to XView and Tk before, so the
	    Gtk port was just another port (it happens to be the most
	    clean port and the port that cleaned up a lot of the code
	    though). 

Now, can you tell me which are those DFM features and Linux Explorer
features that you miss?  Write a complete list of those and mail that
to the list.

Best wishes,
Miguel.