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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Christopher Barry < [email protected]> wrote: > > OK, so I've had several cocktails, it is Friday night - er, ok > Saturday morn, after all, so take anything I say with a grain of salt... > > Disclaimer: I can never use another WM. Not an option. It's e or the > command line. Period. gnome, KDE, lxde, anything Ubuntu? nah. been > there, done that. I'm hooked on e. On Debian sid of course. > > Yet some things perplex me. Maybe it's my settings are weird (I use > focus follows mouse). Maybe no developer uses or even tests with my > settings. dunno. > > But why, please tell me, when I'm in the file manager, and I hover over > a file or directory, a dialog with a massive icon pops up, covering over > most everything, that I cannot access or use! When I move the mouse to > get there it disappears on me. It's frustrating. Also, why such a huge > icon? I already know what it's icon is - I'm looking at it to > highlight the file. I probably really want more details about this file > or directory, not a bigger icon view. A big icon may be prettier or > clearer, but it does nothing to answer my questions... Luckily, I'm a > heavy shell and mc user, so it's not *that* big a deal, but still, it's > weird by any analysis. Form should always follow function. > > On the topic of file managers, most ignore one of the most basic > desired functions: actually display the entire file (regardless of > type) in a pane when you highlight the filename! > > With a simple filetype viewer plugin architecture, the owner of the > filetype can actually code the viewer for you! > > Thumbnails are great, and needed, but being able to view files in the > file manager is *golden* (as in xtree gold-en ;) I hope maybe others who > are coding the e file manager think so too... > > > -- > Regards, > Christopher Barry > > Random geeky fortune: > I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. > -- Albert Einstein > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
