GMC and Features I miss was (Re: Icons on the desktop)

["Mark Eaton (HeTTaR)" <hettar uq net au>]

ok well I will probably get flamed for this but I miss having a tree view
ala windows explorer. It is Soooo convienient if you have to move files
around. I like to be able to sort files by size type etc. the select is mega
weird. it always selects on less than you think it is. apart from that it is
pretty cool :)
HeTTaR
M & D Eaton
hettar@uq.net.au
ICQ 1779385

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
    To: pauljohn@ukans.edu <pauljohn@ukans.edu>
    Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
    Date: Thursday, 7 May 1998 3:34 am
    Subject: Re: Icons on the desktop



    > 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.


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