Hi Jerry,
Caja is the 'old' nautilus so if you like it better by all means use it!
There are lots and lots to choose from.
Some people would rather have a 2-paned file manager than one that uses
abstractions and bookmarks.
I, like Aere, preferr pcmanfm for numerous reasons (fast, light, does
everything I want, has features other file managers don't, generally
improves without removing features)
I have used many file managers (nautilus, thunar, rox, pcmanfm, spacefm,
xfe, terminal file managers, etc...) and for me pcmanfm works the best.
This is (as it has been pointed out) why GNU/Linux is so great.
You could even (if you chose) hack the code of pcmanfm to sort files the
way you want, and add configuration options etc... Enjoy libre software! :D
You are totally free to use caja instead of pcmanfm in Lubuntu.
If you need help setting it up just ask us!
On 06/24/2016 12:11 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
Jerry:
It's okay to have different preferences. I personally like being
different.
It sounds like I would like Caja better as well, but it's not a big
enough deal for me to want to change.
Where Caja does it differently, their code probably substitutes their
own lexical comparison routine, as certainly can be done.
With the default lexical comparison routines, the hidden folders (and
hidden files) come first only because a period (.) comes before any
letter or digit in the 'alphabetical order' of the character set.
In the e-mail I sent last, the table may not have appeared in table
form without the e-mail being viewed in HTML form.
- Aere
On 06/23/2016 10:46 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote:
I think in the end, I'll just have to either install a file manager
that I'm comfortable with, or change distributions. I was just hoping
to understand the reason why PCManFM sorts the way it does so that
maybe I could see the benefit of it. But, so far that's just not
happening.
For instance, if I have hidden files made visible, in my home
directory I have .folders first, then regular folders, then .files,
and then regular files; that is going from top to bottom.
So, from top to bottom I see:
hidden folders
normal folders
hidden files
normal files
In Caja it's just the opposite:
normal folders
hidden folders
normal files
hidden files
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I seem to be more comfortable
with Caja'a sorting order. I'll just learn to get used to it, there
must be a logical benefit that I'm not seeing.
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