[PLUG] ui opinion (flame off)

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> > Does it have hotkeys for that?  I never used Windows Explorer's icons
> > after I discovered C-c, C-v, and C-x.
>
> Probably; I've found that those key combinations seem to work in most every
> X-based program I've tried. Still, it means using 2 hands, instead of just
> mouse-only. Not the best of design choices.  I mean, even XWC has toolbar
> buttons for what - you would think - would be the most used frequently
> commands for a GUI file manager.

I find this to be interesting.  I'm originally a mac guy so I think the
whole drop down menu w/ cutting and pasting of files is silly actually,
just a religious urge I'm sure. I usually drag and drop. I think the hot
keys are good, but to navigate a menu IMHO takes more time than opening
two windows b/c you are going to have to get to the destination
graphically in order to paste anyway.  Of course, I'm forgetting that you
have better navigation now than the mac w/ the up arrows and such. I guess
I should spend more time in X, since I learned cli, I use that the most.
However, I did copy a bunch of files to diff dirs and rename them, no
decent pattern to match and I used konqueror, drag and drop.  I like it.

Fred


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