On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:23:58AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Charles Muller wrote: > > >A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander on the > >desktop. I went to their site to read the explanation and look at some > >screen shots. From what I could see, it is not clear whether MC > >completely *replaces* Gnome as one's desktop, or if it more like a > >sophisticated file manager that one can utilize while working on another > >DM like Gnome or KDE. ? > > > >Chuck > > > > > > > > What's the address of "their site"? I'm curious to see what you saw. > > mc (Midnight Commander) is a text-based file manager; as such, it > certainly would not replace a gui desktop environment such as Gnome. A > gui version of mc is gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander), but again, it's > just a file manager, not a replacement for window manager/tools/etc. > > apt-cache show mc > and > apt-cache show gmc > will give you more info.
The gui version of mc is no longer part of GNU Midnight Commander. See http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/. Also, gmc is in stable but not in the testing distribution. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
