On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 7 June 2011 15:53, Le Tian <tiane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are occasions, when u need to see or show some lovely icons.
>
> With the exception of image thumbnails, icons are really completely
> pointless.
>
> On 7 June 2011 16:17, Le Tian <tiane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > like a girlfriend, she needs icons and stuff
>
> Yeah, it's well-known that females can't read, and rely on pictures
> instead... No, don't be silly, she doesn't need icons, people
> unfamiliar with shells just find the terminal intimidating. Once they
> get over that fear it's really no problem. (I find inverting the
> colours actually helps to a worrying degree.)
>
> My thoughts on a suckless file manager, though my file manager is 'ls':
>
> Orthodox: two paned, plus command line. At compile time you just
> define commands like,
> { CTRL('m'), "mv $+ $@" }
> You select a bunch of files on the left, navigate to a directory on
> the left, and hit C-m. Simple, effective. It's not amazing, but it
> would do its job.
>
> cls
>
> Interesting... Yeah, "I find inverting the colours actually helps to a
worrying degree." I think this should be a default in all linux distros,
due a phycological factor.)
--
Tian
