Re: [Bashburn-info] new filemanager

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Monday, Oct 13th 2008 at 10:37 -0000, quoth Markus Kollmar:

=>I think the filemanager is a great idea since it is not easy to explain 
=>someone
=>why he had to give in bash commands to define data - and in other 
=>bashburn menus not.
=>Good work, Anders.
=>
=>I suggest to include this in bashburn 3.1 - but we have to improve it to 
=>make it easy usable:
=>
=>* color directories in another color as the files
=>* list files/dirs also horizontal to use display space better
=>* cut list of large data to a "page" and provide a simple page selection
=>* provide also removing of files in the burn-dir in the same usage as 
=>adding files
=>* as a future function we could also provide burn-data saving, which 
=>allows users to
=>  define data once - and store it in a file for future use.
=>
=>One may say the filemanager is not so powerful like the method now to 
=>define data.
=>This may be true for experienced users. But since we also welcome all 
=>users and give each the ability
=>to easy burn cd, we should think of that (we could provide the old data 
=>definition method in future, too).

I like the idea of the file manager, but there are already so many file 
managers out there that we really don't want to write a new one that might 
prevent the user from selecting one that he already likes (e.g., mc, 
konqueror, etc...)

* The use could have an BBFILEMGR to override the default one that we 
could supply.

* I'm leary of the whole color thing because it currently makes the 
presumption about running with a black background/white foregound. We need 
to implement themes so that people can define things the way they want. 
And if we do it right then users will be able to contribute themes to us 
for distribution.

* The last suggestion about burn-data saving is something I very much 
like. k3b has the same notion, so if you regularly burn the same data over 
an over, you might just select a predefineable project and your burndir 
would automagically populate.

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