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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by latchkey »

nine_k wrote: post #25
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's fair to ask of any new program why to use it rather than an existing option. And there can be lots of reasons - more active development, new features, less buggy, smaller program (uses less disk/memory, easier to be less buggy), easier to install, easier to use, whatever. And the author of a program doesn't necessarily need to have an answer, especially not early on; programming is sometimes its own rewa…

I won't say that mc is really buggy, nor that it's large. But even if it were, it's weird to not even mention it, let alone compare with it, while likely most of the target audience has been using mc for years (or decades, like me).

> or decades, like me

Heh, I ported mc to Apple's A/UX back in the early 90's!

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by Teever »

hiatus wrote: post #34
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31

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This program is available for multiple platforms, not just linux. Anyway, many people prefer keyboard navigation and already have a shell open for other tasks. Navigation by keyboard alone is not generally a feature in most GUI applications (see things like Vimium to add that capability to Chrome, for instance).

Not only is it multiplatform, but through the magic of SSH TUIs are available on any platform.

I think that a lot of people are drawn to the idea of being able to customize their UI the exact way they want it and have it be that way everywhere.

There are compromises with TUIs but that idea of a universal interface is very alluring to some people who want to optimize that part of their life.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by schindlabua »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31
schindlabua wrote: post #13

Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!

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It's a slippery slope, once you've spent a year tailoring your setup it removes so much friction from those tasks you do 100 times a day. Sometimes I look at my macos coworkers and they have a single application on fullscreen and then they shake their mouse or whatever and 20 windows fly over the screen and then they scan them all to find the other window they are looking for, and I really wonder how they get work done.

I use i3 and have 5 credit-card sized terminals open at any given time without taking up much screen real estate, and it's so great.

Takes some getting used to though.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by terminaltrove »

superfile looks great, we have this listed on the trove (1) for other package managers, we love what's been done recently in the terminal / tui space.

I encourage also supporting the author as well on their ko-fi page for a new laptop. (2)

1. https://terminaltrove.com/superfile/

2. https://ko-fi.com/night_cat

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by something98 »

schindlabua wrote: post #43
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's a slippery slope, once you've spent a year tailoring your setup it removes so much friction from those tasks you do 100 times a day. Sometimes I look at my macos coworkers and they have a single application on fullscreen and then they shake their mouse or whatever and 20 windows fly over the screen and then they scan them all to find the other window they are looking for, and I really wonder how they get work do…

> Sometimes I look at my macos coworkers ... and I really wonder how they get work done

And I read the sentence before and wonder the same:

> once you've spent a year tailoring your setup

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by schindlabua »

something98 wrote: post #47
schindlabua wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a slippery slope, once you've spent a year tailoring your setup it removes so much friction from those tasks you do 100 times a day. Sometimes I look at my macos coworkers and they have a single application on fullscreen and then they shake their mouse or whatever and 20 windows fly over the screen and then they scan them all to find the other window they are looking for, and I really wonder how they get work do…

> Sometimes I look at my macos coworkers ... and I really wonder how they get work done And I read the sentence before and wonder the same: > once you've spent a year tailoring your setup

The irony is not lost on me but you can get productive if you spend a weekend configuring stuff and then you upgrade as you go :)

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by utensil4778 »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31
schindlabua wrote: post #13

Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!

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Because TUIs never change. No one removes useful options from a TUI because "whitespace is clean". No one is writing useless changes to TUIs so they can feel like their job means something or to chase some bonus.

Because GUI design today is very bad and only getting worse.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by doix »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31
schindlabua wrote: post #13

Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!

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Because terminal programs have limitations that limit the amount of annoying things programs can do.

The color scheme matches the color scheme I set. They cannot change the font size nor the the font. They cannot spawn windows that will steal focus. They can run inside tmux which has advantages for my workflow.

Hotkeys are a first class citizen and not an afterthought when it comes to terminal uis.

That being said, I don't hate GUIs. I just hate a lot of them for doing things that annoy me.

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