Re: [Fwd: GMC: Recreating the best console file manager for X]

[Juan Pablo Romero <jpablo netservice com mx>]

I wish there would be place for both worlds; lets make it a user decision.

What you think?

Personally i think each style can be better than the other, depending of the
task you are doing.

    Juan Pablo

Paul Seelig wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Bruno Widmann wrote:
>
> > i think gmc should have same layout & basic design as console-mc, because
> > that's allmost perfect (as was norton commander for dos). Add drag&drop to
> > that, but don't remove functionality...
> >
> I just wanted to step up front to say that i agree with your statement.
>
> I think that the removal of the traditional MC (or NC) layout is actually
> a very sad loss regarding functionality. The bad thing about all those
> single pane layouts like the Win95 Explorer or KFM are a step backwards in
> true useability because they make you depend upon using a mouse (try
> copying a few files in MC and then again with GMC to see what i mean) and
> thus taking away choice instead of adding to it.
>
>                                             Ciao, P. *8^)
> --
>    Paul Seelig                         pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
>    African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies
>    Johannes Gutenberg-University   -  Forum 6  -  55099 Mainz/Germany
>    Our WWW pages to be visited  at  "http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender"
>
> --
>          To unsubscribe: mail gnome-list-request@gnome.org with
>                        "unsubscribe" as the Subject.