daniele favara wrote:
On 1/31/06, Juan Jose Pablos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colin McDermott wrote:
Which is why I am such an advocate for rox-filer. There seems to be an
assumption that users want everything to pop up in front of them when it
is plugged in. Perhaps they do....(though this can create
confusion)..But I think the main thing that users want is quick ways to
get around from /home (or their hd/files) to /media (or their cdroms)
and to look at an uncomplicated interface. Rox-filer does this well.
I agree about the need of a quick way to get to /media. My only issue
with rox-file is the use of ctrl+x to delete files. supr seems more
natural today.
from what you're saying it seems the perfect file manager is thunar
even for you ...
Okay how would users mount a floppy disk?
on the letf side pane:
| - home
| - file system
|-----
| - bookmark 1
| - bookmark 2
| - ....
the user can get guickly /media, for example when a new device has
been attached the volume manager :
echo "file:///mount/point" >> $HOME/.gtk-bookmarks
in this way the user can easly browse all the rw dir.
Also once Items are AUTOMOUNTED how do they get unmounted (In ubuntu you
right click on the desktop icon *Very difficuld on a Mac* and select
unmount?) Where in Thunar do you click to unmount a volume? Please think
about this as Automounters tend to be most frustrating to users when
they don't realise that a volume has been mounted and they do not know
how to unmount. With Rox you click into a directory in /mount and you
unmount it when you close the directory or exit out of it (or via right
clicking on the icon).
this is from thunar-dev:
"On the other hand, while thinking about this again: How about extending
xfdesktop for 4.4 to support very basic desktop icon functionality
(display the contents of ~/Desktop) and just invoke methods from the
org.xfce.FileManager interface? You can use thunar-vfs to determine
icons, display names, etc. of the files. Of course this would be
optional and maybe not perfect, but atleast Xfce 4.4 would have basic
support for desktop icons then. I'll need to think about this again tho,
just a quick&dirty idea for now."
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