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Re: File Manager

From mick <nospam@junk.mail>
Newsgroups free.virginmedia.comp.linux
Subject Re: File Manager
Date 2015-08-30 21:44 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 30/08/2015 21:26:57, DaveG wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:49:27 +0000, mick wrote:
>
>> Have been looking for a file manager equivalent to Directory Opus on
>> Windows.
>> 
>> Krusader came close with nice user interface but viewing panels not to
>> my liking.
>> 
>> Now I have just found what could be the holy grail, 4Pane, dual vertical
>> tree and folder panes which can be changed to horizontal view, the way I
>> like to work, or single tree and file pane.
>> Preferred layouts can be saved as templates.
>> http://www.4pane.co.uk/index.html
>> 
>
> I can see why, as a new user and your use-case of a file manager on 
> Windows, but it's just looks overly complex and "cluttered" to me.
>
> I suppose, as a user who switched to FreeBSD when 4.3 was the latest 
> release many years ago, I've learned to use the individual GUI and 
> command line tools available and so don't have the need for a single all-
> singing, all-dancing file manager.
>
> On the other hand, it does bring a lot of complex tasks under one roof 
> and makes the basics of those complex tasks accessible with a relatively 
> shallow learning curve,  I'm glad you found something you feel 
> comfortable with but it's not for me :-)

I don't know how to configure it to see my LAN :-(

-- 
mick

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File Manager mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-30 14:49 +0000
  Re: File Manager DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-08-30 20:26 +0000
    Re: File Manager mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-30 21:44 +0100
      Re: File Manager DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-08-31 00:10 +0000
        Re: File Manager mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-31 12:43 +0100
        Re: File Manager mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-31 21:22 +0100
          Re: File Manager DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-08-31 21:18 +0000
            Re: File Manager mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-09-01 01:02 +0100
              Re: File Manager DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-09-01 07:45 +0000

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