Re: The perfect file manager

["Travis Watkins" <amaranth ubuntu com>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Sorin <sorin cali gmail com> wrote:
> Features:
>
> - Windows Vista file manager look (kind of Mozilla Firefox look in terms of
> nav. buttons, address/search bars)
That's really a theme issue.

> - compact list view (nice when working with lots of files)
Someone was working on this, not sure if it ever got finished.

> - tabs (Windows Vista, and Apple's OS X are far behind this feature)
This is being worked on.

> - support for archives
I don't really see the point of this but someone was working on
libarchive gio backend.

> - support for encrypted files/volumes
This is the responsibility of your kernel.

> - support for network files/volumes (including FTP, and Windows)
Done.

> - secure delete feature (sweap)
Not sure on this one.

> - preview/embeded view for different types of content (office documents,
> images, videos, web pages)
Done.

> - indexing/searching support
Nautilus should not do indexing but it should support searching using
whatever program does do the indexing. Which it does.

> - global bookmarks
Done?

> - support for plugins
Done.

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Travis Watkins
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