On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:57, Alan Daley wrote:
> This is all a very interesting exercise and much can be learned by doing
> it. However, doesn't Konqueror in file manager mode already do this?
As far as I have been able to figure out, it does not. But perhaps you can
enlighten me about some features and/or configuration capabilities that I am
not aware of.
> I assume you are doing this because either you need some functionality
> not provided by file manager utilities like Konqueror or you want to learn
> something specific or both. It seems to me that Konqueror already does
> this.
My objective is optimal efficiency ... and not having to jump through extra
hoops and steps and clicks to get from point A to point B.
Konqueror is a good browser and a good vehicle for file access, however it
(and all other browsers and file managers that I am aware of) are really
rather cumbersome and generally inadequate in several respects.
A custom tailored menu, on the other hand, allows one to specifically define
exactly what functions and file accesses are desired and to specify
the exact sequence and presentation that one desires.
Konqueror offers only five view-mode options, none of which is a simple,
concise list of files. There are: Icon view, Multi-column view, Tree view,
Detailed list view, and Text view. All of these either waste space with
icons or waste space with long lists including too much needless detail.
Moreover, one does not have the option to set up specific lists of
pre-defined items, and mix file access with other kinds of functions such as
can be done with a custom-designed menu that can be set up to maintain a
specific structure, specifically organized sequence of items, plus an array
of many different types of functions in addition to file access.
Furthermore, when one accesses files via Konqueror, one still has to click
two more times (as I described in my original description of the objective)
in order to get a selected text file into an editor. I want to go _directly_
from a single click on a one or two word menu item of my own description
directly into text editing mode within the same window. As far as I know,
that is impossible with Konqueror or with any other file manager.
A clean, streamlined desktop and clean, streamlined menus with no
space-wasting icons is the objective. Ideally, I would like to have no more
than four or five words (and no icons) on my desktop - with each word
accessing a custom designed menu that provides an array of options,
functions, and text-file access, that I can specify and organize the way I
want them -- each with a single mouse-click or one-key keyboard access.
Graphical interfaces have some advantages over command-line interface (which
I often prefer for many things) ... however, imho the pendulum has swung way
over to needless excess in the way one has to click through so many steps
and/or levels to get to where one wants to be when one should be able to go
their directly with a single click or keystroke.
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