I'm bringing back an item we talked about on the video call this morning. Folks have discussed a few times on this email list about dropping the FDTUI program from the distribution. But FDTUI was always "just one item in a long list of other topics" in whatever thread it was brought up in, so FDTUI never really got much discussion.
FDTUI is only a file manager, but not a very good one. We have other file managers in FreeDOS (like Doszip). The program doesn't really do anything and is buggy. See below for details. I think we need to drop FDTUI, and not include it in FreeDOS 1.4. ACTION: I'm looking for consensus. Please release with "+1" if you agree or comments if not. -- If you haven't used FDTUI: When you start the program, you get a blank blue screen with a white menu at the top. The menu shows only two items: - "Internal Applications" - "Exit" The "Internal Applications" menu only has two sub-items: - "File Manager" - "Run" The File manager is very bare-bones. It also has a serious display issue where the upper-left part of the file manager window is immediately wiped out when FDTUI erases the "Internal Applications" drop-down menu. In the file manager, if you click on any file (like a document called SAMPLE.DOC) then FDTUI tries to *run* the file, and you get "Bad command or filename." A better solution would be to let the user associate file extensions with applications (like "DOC" == C:\WORD55\WORD.EXE) with a default association of "BAT" == C:\COMMAND.COM, and otherwise only launch EXE and COM programs. I think FDTUI was someone's hobby project that was never finished. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
