Re: [Bashburn-info] new filemanager

[Anders L. <and...@gm...>]

On Monday 13 October 2008 16:37:39 Markus Kollmar wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks. It was just an idea I wanted to try out. I always felt the linking of 
files, while not difficult didn't really fit into the rest of BashBurn. 

> 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

That's an idea. Or maybe some sort of indicator (<Dir>) to show that it's a 
directory and not a file.

> * list files/dirs also horizontal to use display space better

Good idea. 

> * cut list of large data to a "page" and provide a simple page selection

Also a good idea. Maybe show like 25 files/directories by page and the user 
can press 'n' to go to the next page and maybe 'p' to go to the previous.

> * 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.
>

Why not.

> 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).
>

We could perhaps add a new variable where the user can select to use the old 
way, this file manager or some external one.


-- 
Anders Lindén
http://bashburn.dose.se