John Bokma wrote:
Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> writes:
On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 10, 10:59 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leigh...@gmail.com> wrote:
source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser
$ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4")
conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out.
entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined. always
a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com
with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as
grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written
in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled].
l.
Congratulations on this effort Luke. However you know what project i
would really like to see the community get around? ...dramatic pause
here... a cross platform Python file browser! Yes i know there are
tons of them out there already and Python is a bit slow, but i think
it would be useful to many peoples.
Cross platform file manager. Hmm. Does "cross platform" involve UNIX and
something that isn't UNIX, say, Windows?
Erm, no. No, no, no. It won't work. Well, it would work, but it wouldn't
be any good. The UNIX and Windows concepts of "file system" are similar
enough for most programs not to care too much, but for something like a
file manager, that works intimately with the file system, trying to
support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea.
Can't think of why not. Of course not all operations are shared by each
OS, but /I/ know that I can't do chmod on Windows. But it doesn't mean
that on Windows I can't make a file only readable by me. Just give me
the Windows security options on Windows, and chmod on *nix and I would
be very happy.
>
On Windows the root folders of the different drives could be treated as
subfolders of a 'root' folder.
Especially if all can be done via a context menu a la RISC OS.
Ah, RISC OS!
<rant>
I'd heard how user-friendly the Mac was, but when I was first introduced
to the Mac (circa MacOS 8) I was very surprised that even it still used
old-fashioned Open and Save dialog boxes with their own little file
browsers like on a Windows PC instead of drag-and-drop like I'd become
used to on RISC OS. And that menu bar not even at the top of the window
but at the top of the _screen_! And the way that bringing one Finder
window to the front brought _all_ the Finder windows in front of the
other windows! I was distinctly underwhelmed... :-(
</rant>
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