Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:01:29AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2004-06-15T03:01:59Z, Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:
>
> > Pisses me off to no end when i want to copy from folder A to folder B
> > which are both in folder C and I have to open two windows and drill both
> > windows down to that one subfolder and then split when I can just drill
> > once, split from there, copy the files then close all.
>
> OK, let me make sure I've got this straight. For example, you want to copy
> From /usr/share/media/music/albums/Foo1 to
> /usr/share/media/music/singles/Collection2/ . You don't want to start with
> two windows at "/" and drill down separately, right?
>
> If so, in Konqueror, you navigate to your .../albums/Foo1 folder. Select
> the "Location -> Duplicate Window" menu (first menu, third item). Click the
> up arrow twice to take you back to /usr/share/media/music. Click "singles"
> then "Collection2".
Not bad. But IMHO far better:
$ cd /u[tab]sh[tab] etc.
$ mc al[tab] si[tab]
>
> Now you have two windows without having to dig from root in each one.
> Having said that, do you like or dislike that method, and why? After years
> of using an Amiga, I kind of like the browser model now. I'm curious about
> how other people use their file managers differently from the way I use one.
>
> Of course, my main file manager is Konsole and Zsh, so most of this is
> academic on my part. :)
> --
> Kirk Strauser
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