On 1/31/06, Colin McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried both Xffm and Thunar. Thunar really needs a nice set of > icons BTW. > > Why not work with rox-filer. It can mount directories that are mapped in > fstab. It can do desktop icons. It can do everything you want except an > explorer like tree (imho I think that a file tree confuses people more > then it helps them. Namely because you can only write to /home /tmp and > /var/tmp or a mounted drive). It is also stable. > I agree with you here, but you should even think that a new user will expect to have it ... as explorer has it
thunar: just a file manager, - no (p)mount - (p)umount - no desktop icons - no wallpaper xffm: much more then just a file manager, not really easy to use (personally i don't like it) - mount , (no pmount) - umount , (no pumount) - desktop icons - no wallpaper rox-filer: file manager, no dir tree - mount , (no pmount) - umount , (no pumount) - desktop icons (if -pin) - wallpaper (if -pin) as one of the main app of ubuntu is pmount, i think that should be enabled on a file manager, Benedikt told me he will add it, i don't think it'll be ready for dapper. A solution is to let the volume manager to make this, but there are some issues like: - the user boot into xubuntu, he opens the fm, he can see there are for ex.. /dev/hda1 in /media/hda1 and /dev/hdc in /media/cdrom with rox and xffm he can r-click and mount or umount, if i'm not wrong he plugs an usb stick ... the volume manager pmount it (it's a removable device), the user knows he can find new devices in /media, he r-clicks on it and he can't mount or umount .... that's an issue for me. solution: or use a file manager that doesn't have that problem, or use a file manager that doesn't have mount features and let some other app doing that. Thunar is fine i think. But i think it's important that the user can have an idea of his devices, and where they are ... desktop icons are needed. the desktop icon app should be able to: - generate icons when it starts (reading from desktop files i think it 's the best choice) - add new icons on the fly (for ex when an usbstick has been attached) - remove icons on the fly (for ex when an usbstick has been removed) - pop up a menu with possible actions on r-click * [p]mount * [p]umount * eject * open fm on mount point idesk, can be used for desktop icons and a script in ivman could generate the needed file and Kill - Restart idesk in the way the new icon can be added. That is the approach i used on my project, but there are issues: - idesk has a xlib menu - it needs to be killed-restarted to show new icons Redundancies: - xfdesktop + rox-files -pin * two apps drawing the wallpaper I think this is an important point, it's not just to choose one file manager instead of one other, as it will affect the whole xubuntu usability. -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
