#include <hallo.h>
* Christoph Berg [Mon, Feb 21 2005, 04:46:14PM]:
> Re: Eduard Bloch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Agreed. However, I though about writting cp/mv versions that display
> > progress bars and allow interactive "resuming" of copy operations. I
> > think such things together with ptar could go into some kind of
> > "interactive-command-line-tools" package.
>
> rsync has progress bars, even when used locally. (for copying files,
But it has some drawbacks:
- it always reads the target file (which slows down the process, even
if the user definitely knows that the previous transfer was not
corrupted, just interrupted)
- it creates a second file which makes the beast fail when you don't
have enough free space for two copies
> no idea about moving - there's a reason there are file managers out
> there like <ad>endeavour2</ad> etc.)
Hm. Just tried it for few minutes, it is nice, but sucks too:
- does not use ARGV[1] as the start directory
- does not use integrate our mime system well. Open with presents a
stupid empty box. "see" is choosen as default viewer but the Open
action does not open any file ("see" called manually works)
- scroll wheel not working in the image viewer, no "next image" button
- the background around the images is pink (
- the breaks for "scanning directory" are a joke - no real user
seriously wants to wait 30seconds for some tool to rescan a directory
that has already been displayed.
- multibyte (UTF-8) is broken
- the "devices" overview says my / is not mounted
- the delete buttons tells me crap about "Write protection beeing on".
WTF? Apparently this "write protect" flag has been set, but not by
me.
My diagnosis so far: nice GUI, it has a future, but there are bugs,
bugs, bugs.
Whatever, I was talking about console utils with a little bit more
verbosity and not a GUI with
Regards,
Eduard.
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