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Re: gtk file picker and firefox



On Tuesday, 21 February 2006 at 11:11:36 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Toshiro wrote:
> >>FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason
> >>being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove
> >>away due to this inefficient filepicker.
> >
> >
> >I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved 
> >away to konqueror for the same reason, that filepicker sucks!!; it's 
> >incredible that I couldn't select my own home directory to save downloaded 
> >files!! 
> 
> I'm confused. What has a web browser got to do with a file picker?
> Are you using it to browse your own machine? If so, then that's
> bizarre. That was one of the first things that got nixed in
> Win98 when it went to beta release, only they called it "active
> desktop". I mean using a web browser I/F to browse one's own
> machine.

Don't knock it.  I love my mc, but just now and again I use konqueror
instead, because it understands long file names.  It is an excellent
file manager, and allows ftp drag-and-drop so you can think yourself
back seven years and pretend you are in doze98 using one of those gui
ftp clients (except konqueror doesn't crash every 7 minutes).

And it's a good browser.

-- 
richard
 



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