Re: Midnight Commander: A full desktop, or application
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.
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