On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:04:37PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: >On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:30:09 +0300 Markus Törnqvist <[email protected]> said: > >> >the dnd makes uses of another app that is devoted to futzing about finding >> >files - the filemanager. but what you want there imho is not a file selector >> >- that's a poor mans version of that. you want something like evrything in e >> >built into your app - so you can navigate like a cmdline and find/play/see >> >things. that's a whole new ballgame inho where the app wants to customize >> >and >> >define your view here - eg give you video thumbnails that actually play like >> >the playlist widget on the right... this is a whole project on its own imho.
>> So basically you mean "launch full-fledged EFM in Rage's context?" > >kind of... but not a separate window - inside rage. that means async file >listing, organizing file view with entering folders etc. - it's a fair bit of >work on the ui side for sure. Afraid I don't see this in my mind. Substituting all the window contents that are there now? That might actually be nice. Is this something you're planning for all of e, substituting apps contents with each other or just a special case for managing/opening files? >> IIRC there was an old operating system, but I can't remember which one, that >> used the file manager for all "open file" type operations. The philosophy >> being that those dialogs are subsets of the file manager _anyway_ so why >> not just use the whole thing. At least in theory I like that thinking if >> it really works. Like knows that it's dealing with Rage now and not something >> else. > >actually that is exactly how e works. e's own file selector IS the efm view. >just in list mode. with 2 of them side by side... :) (faves on left, dir on >right, with preview of a dir being another efm view). :) maybe elm's own file >selector shoudl get some love and become as flexible and powerful as efm... >then maybe it'll be a doable thing. Hehe, I got icons, because of all the cool thumbnails enlightenment generates that look unflattering in a list view ;) But yeah, that's actually interesting to know. Seems like a pretty logical way to go, actually. (Though I'm not a huge fan of the hovering preview so I'll most likely take it up on phab ;) -- mjt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
