On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:05:42AM +0100, KMcLauchlan wrote:
Howdy.
Those of you who use (I hesitate to misuse the term "minimalist") window managers like... WindowManager, do you religiously perform all operations from a terminal command line, or do you use a character-based file manager like Midnite Commander or Ytree?
I fall in into this category. I am using WindowManager, I do most of my job in xterm, and yes, I use Midnight Commander quite often.
(I'm assuming no-one would use WM and then commit sacrilege by invoking Nautilus or Konq -- with all that overhead -- to do file operations... :-)
For me, both Nautilus and Konq are just clumsy compared with mc for performing file operations.
Is there reason to favor one over the other (MC vs Ytree), or is there a third option you'd recommend? Is anybody producing binary rpms for Ytree that would work with SuSE 8.x?
I can't say anything about Ytree, never used it.
I used Xtree and Norton commander back in DOS and Windows 3.11 days. They did the job.
Well, I would call mc a (bad?) habit of mine from DOS days. I know, I am not typical, but I am very comfortable with these tools. Regards, -Kastus