Hi, I have to move files around, rename bunches of files, etc... Thanks for your review of MC and definitely I will give it a try and it seems you have used rox for a while, I will also try other file managers you mentioned.
Regards, Zhang 2009/1/21 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es>: > > On Thu, January 22, 2009 00:00, zhang zhengquan wrote: >> Dear mc users: >> I have been using icewm with file manager rox-filer for years and now >> I find rox-filer not a very efficient. >> >> Efficiencywise, could you please compare a competent mc user and a GUI >> file manager user? > > I am not anyone to "compare users", whatever that means. > > We could speak about graphical file managers vs. text based ones instead. > And whether mc will suit you or not will strictly depend on your exigences, > what do you ask from a file manager? Without knowing that we cannot tell > you if mc is for you or not. And even if we knew that it's still > impossible to > predict if it will suit you. > > mc can be quite handy for some things but I find it unpractical for others. > However, for what a file manager can give, I find it quite a good program. > When I need a file manager (which is getting rarer and rarer) it's my > choice. Except when I need to navigate large catalogs of images, then > I need to use a graphical tool. > >> I am considering to a console based commander in hope of increasing my >> efficienty in managing my files. > > mc is customizable to an extent (but not superb in that regard), and being > text based is a plus if you need to run it under screen or ssh. It's also > light enough that you can have many sessions open for many purposes > without filling so much ram. If you are proficient with scripting the f2 menu > can be adapted to do almost anything (I use it to launch playlists > or to burn files to a cd for example). It handles ssh and ftp stuff > transparently > and can be used to dive into your compressed archives and even iso images. > > Graphical file managers can be equally good if you manage to find a sane > one that works for you (I could never live with rox, it's not my cup of tea). > However, I never found one that I really liked. If I had to use one it would > probably be konqueror or dolphin (I used konqueror in the past and it was > good, but it had its own assortment of problems). > > -- > Jesús Guerrero > > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
