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Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
Hi!
Aehm, WHICH 'dialog box for file manipulation' ? I use the bash (and fvwm2). If I want to create a directory, for example, I type mkdir directory.
Yea, I can open a terminal window and create the directory that way, and then refresh the dialog box. I find this inconvenient.
So I think you are talking about some other windowmanager (kdm comes to mind) or a 'norton commander' clone (there are half a dozen on the SuSE 5.2 CD's IIRC.
What I am talking about is the box that pops up when I try to download a file in Netscape, for example. You can get this dialog box by going to any web page and clicking "file|save as". This is the same under openwin, cde, and kde. I believe it is also the same under fvwm.
UNIX per se is not graphical (which is a big plus, as you can slap on different graphics servers, like the different X11 Servers aviable, and on top of these (but independent from them, as long as it's X11) many many different window managers, like enlightenment, fvwm, twm, CDE, kdm, .......). So please don't say Unix when you blame something else.
Perhaps this feature is something common to Motif or OpenLook. As I say, I am not an expert. I am sure that things don't need to be the way they are. I am just wondering why they are this way.
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right-clicking like you can in 95/NT. I have found that StarOffice does have this right-click feature, so I know that it can be done in Unix.
Sure it can be done. Almost everything that can be done as a GUI in WinXX can be done under Unix, it's a question of writing the program (parts), and of wanting to do it the WinXX way - often there are better ways.
Since the dialog box that I am referring to seems to exist on every Unix GUI that I have worked with, I assume it is something basic to the way X works.
nope.
X is just the 'graphics card' to your window manager. If you run Windows everywhere, it'll look the same everywhere, but that won't mean that you could not put other pictures on your monitor. And I never ever saw these boxes.
Well I guess I meant Motif of OpenLook.
I presume you were using always the same window manager/program/ whatever with mostly the same configurations (especially if it's a WM).
See above.
-Wolfgang
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