Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-28 Thread Roy Britten
Thanks all for your responses. Some interesting projects there. For now I'll suggest nautilus or konqueror (whatever he has available) and see what happens when he hits F9. Cheers, Roy.

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-28 Thread Timothy Musson
Zane Gilmore, 2007-06-28 11:03:27: KDE's Konqueror does that in file-manager mode or just by pressing F9. I am also told that Nautilus can do it too but I don't know how to make it so. To make browser mode the default in Nautilus, you can fire up gconf-editor, open /apps/nautilus/preferences,

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-28 Thread Roger Searle
Roy Britten wrote: Thanks all for your responses. Some interesting projects there. For now I'll suggest nautilus or konqueror (whatever he has available) and see what happens when he hits F9. Cheers, Roy. Konqueror has become my choice though following the suggestions yesterday I have been

Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-27 Thread Roy Britten
... other than switch to linux :) A chap I know misses the Windows Explorer interface when he's on a linux box. You know the sort of thing -- a split pane with an expanding/collapsing directory tree on the left and a file list on the right. I just use plain old nautilus and don't know of any

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-27 Thread Zane Gilmore
KDE's Konqueror does that in file-manager mode or just by pressing F9. I am also told that Nautilus can do it too but I don't know how to make it so. Roy Britten wrote: On 28/06/07, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A chap I know misses the Windows Explorer interface when he's on a

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-27 Thread Nick Rout
mc On Thu, June 28, 2007 10:27 am, Roy Britten wrote: ... other than switch to linux :) A chap I know misses the Windows Explorer interface when he's on a linux box. You know the sort of thing -- a split pane with an expanding/collapsing directory tree on the left and a file list on the

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 6/28/07, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... other than switch to linux :) A chap I know misses the Windows Explorer interface when he's on a linux box. In alphabetical, i.e. no particular, order Linux offers these file managers: Dolphin ( doesn't have the expanding tree thing, but

Re: Advice for a Windows user

2007-06-27 Thread Stephen Irons
Roy Britten wrote: ... other than switch to linux :) A chap I know misses the Windows Explorer interface when he's on a linux box. You know the sort of thing -- a split pane with an expanding/collapsing directory tree on the left and a file list on the right. I just use plain old nautilus