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File Browser? Who needs it?File Browser? Who needs it?Posted Aug 5, 2012 14:32 UTC (Sun) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: File Browser? Who needs it? by dskoll Parent article: McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]
> Am I the only one who never uses a file browser?
You are not alone. When I first came to Linux there were *no* fast file managers except possibly the norton commander clones (which I just don't like). Of the more explorer-like managers the fastest was gmc, but it was still slower than windows explorer had been on the same hardware. It was so incredibly painful to do any of the simple file management activities that I was accustomed to doing via GUI file managers that I took up using xterms for my file management, which forced me to learn command line tools more thoroughly.
By the time any good options existed I couldn't go back to GUI managers and now I just never use them. Today there are only two good choices of explorer-style file manager anyway: pcmanfm and dolphin. Everything else is brain damaged, horribly slow, or both. The best Linux file manager I've ever seen was endevour2, but it seems to have fallen off the internet at some point.
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File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 9:02 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
I use graphical file managers for exactly one task: the annoying one where you have a bunch of files with no naming or attribute similarity you can express easily, and you want to do the same thing to each of them. Point-and-click file managers are really useful for that. (Just not for anything else I've found.)
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 9:29 UTC (Mon) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]
... now if only they had been of the "gather list of files and spit it on stdout when asked" variety... I.e. usable in form of LIST=`select_files` from shell. Or even LIST=`select_files "$LIST"`, while we are at it - providing the initial set to be edited that way.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 6, 2012 14:26 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah. Sunrise Commander can do that (unsurprising, as dired, which it's based on, can also do that). However, as an Emacs package it naturally emits the result as a Lisp list. Probably not so useful for you!
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 24, 2012 20:42 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] Tryzenity --file-selection or zenity --list for that…
(Or use dialog if you want to stay in your terminal.)
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