On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Dave Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:46 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:54:36 +0100 Chidambar 'ilLogict' Zinnoury
>> > 2. all operations (copy, move, delete) have no progress on screen -
>> if there is
>> > a queue of work (like delete this dir then copy this to here, move
>> this to here
>> > etc.) you can't see it. the idea was to put such status inside the
>> efm window
>> > in-line with where the action was initiated or where it belongs (eg
>> if u delete
>> > a file in a dir then put the status in that dir).
>>
>> what to do when window is closed? and when that folder is viewed
>> again? I'd like to have the progress even if I close the window...
>> either do not close it or when you close "detach" the progress
>> status.
>>
>>
>> > 4. removable device handling (done via hal and dbus at least for the
>> raw nuts
>> > and bolts) mostly seems to work but is a bit hackey the way it
>> writes .desktop
>> > files to ~/.e/e/fileman/favorites then forcibly symlinks them to
>> your Desktop -
>> > this could be cleaned up and made more robust with more options (eg
>> also put
>> > them on other desktops eg Desktop-1 and -2 etc.).
>>
>> I hate these links. IMHO they should be transparent.
>>
>> Actually, the idea would be to follow kde's path to have directory
>> views of EFM and selectively choose to "show devices". That way we
>> can
>> just have a EFM view with "show devices" to show our "~/Desktop" as a
>> gadman. We can even have multiple views in the same desktops (ie: ~/
>> and ~/Desktop) or different views per desktops (~/Desktop-1,
>> ~/Desktop-2...)
>>
>> With that I could choose to view ~/.empty-folder and "show devices"
>> to
>> list just the external devices.
>>
>>
>> > 8. renaming files has a dialog - this is because it was hard to do
>> before. now
>> > we can rename in-place. edje's own entry can now do this. this needs
>> changing.
>>
>> Even with edje support is remains difficult. You must ensure that the
>> edited text is visible (ie: you're editing next to a border, you
>> should pan/scroll to make sure it is visible).
>>
>> > 11. while i'm at it the open with.. dialog is not bad - but the
>> 2-list thing
>> > needs to go. 1 list. also ilist is again abused with a massive list
>> of stuff
>> > (poor ilist. i need to make it possible for ilist to defer list
>> adding and size
>> > calculation with an add queue). so likely that dialog could do with
>> a toolbar
>> > at the top to select between applications that say they do handle
>> that
>> > mime-type, and "all applications" as 2 separate lists and you switch
>> between.
>>
>> about ilist, using Smart's "changed" could help a lot and remove need
>> for freeze/thaw. Other than that we could port guarana's MVC list for
>> such thing, it's very fast when you have rows with the same renderer
>> (same edje group could be applied).
>>
>> My personal items would be:
>>
>> 12. keyboard shortcuts: ^c, ^v, ^x...
>>
>> 13. enable easy open of efm at some folder, specially from cmdline...
>> efm ~/my-folder would be handy.
>
> +1 ... and we also need a .desktop file for efm. A fast way to implement
> this is probably to setup a new e_remote option like
> enlightenemnt_remote --showfm
> than you can have an alias like efm and you can have your desktop file.

Ok, I was trying to implement it when I got stuck with e_ipc stuff
being all hardcoded... no dynamic extensions to
enlightenment_remote... BUT I remembered that fileman registers its
action and you can execute actions with remote:

enlightenment_remote -exec-action "fileman" "$PATH"

-- 
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
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