One that comes to mind: rox-filer. Fire it up when you need it. It won't
drag all the background and deamons with it.
Can't find it (rox-filer) in debian.
As for the background hijacking - I think you can tell nautilus not to do this.
>
> > 2. Sometimes it's useful to have a way to view files in a GUI, or be able
> > to
> > > drag-and-drop files around.
> >
> > other than conveniant renaming,
convinient, but irreproducable.
What do you mean? When I want to "drag this image to that folder and that
other image to another folder, and please add a "family->amos" tag while you
are at it" it's far more convenient to just have a thumbnail in
front of me (and be able to double-click it for quick viewing) than opening a file
named "dscn1234.jpg" just to see what it is then renaming it to the other folder,
especially when having to do this with my wife looking over my shoulder and
asking to switch between files.
> > I find GUI file browsers to be slower
> > than a bash prompt with tab-completion and globbing. there were few
> > times when I needed to sort files when the GUI was a more efficiant
> > tool. That said, I am not dissing the world of GUI file browsers, just
>
>
> I got you about that. Just before I read your message I've moved files from
> my camera's compact-flash into the Digikam album which was a great
> experience to do this way instead of "mv" of the right cryptic-looking file
> names to the right sub-albums. There ARE uses for GUI interfaces.
However both automatic mounting and automatic inline viewing are of the
more problematic features. Image previewing is a cpu eater. Have it only
Are you implying that it is a better use of my resources to keep the CPU
idle and cool while bothering myself to type "xloadimage dscn1234.jpg",
kill that window, then type "xloadimage dscn1235.jpg"?
CPU eating is ok with me (haven't noticed any annoying slow-down), my
CPU has not much else to do anyway.
when you need it. Automatic mounting is nice. However my simple mind
rathers having an explicit "mount" and "unmount". Otherwise you can
forget to sync the filesystem before removing the device.
Yes indeed, I find myself double-checking that the device is unmounted before I
pull the compact-flash card out. But that doesn't mean the rest of the tools
don't add to my convenience.
Come to think of it - though my wife is capable enough to understand the
handling of mount/umount, it would be far more convenient to her when (not
"if" but "when") it will be as easy as on windows. Especially as she gets
tired of her ancient windows box and is willing to learn Linux.
--Amos
