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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by wormius »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #140

What is a "nerd font" and why does this app need one? (Yes I know I could look it up but maybe this will spark a discussion)

Nerd Fonts contain glyphs that allow things like the git strip you see at the bottom of code editors ("powerline"), along with ligatures (e.g. if you type https://www.nerdfonts.com/

And here's an example of ligatures (see the image on the right - you type what's on the left, and the right image is what shows in your editor): https://hilton.org.uk/blog/fira-code

I think but am not sure as I haven't looked in a while, that the folder and file icons are part of the nerdfonts as well, that regular fonts would just show as the generic "missing glyph" symbol.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by Hasnep »

ghodith wrote: post #64
jjuel wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the terminal program technically a GUI?

Technically a TUI?

I think GP was referring to the terminal emulator, which normally has the minimal GUI decorations depending on the terminal emulator and your desktop environment.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by tptacek »

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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My default assumption about GUI programs: they'll either work locally on my macOS developer machine and nowhere else, or they'll work nowhere I can use them.

My default assumption about TUI programs: they'll work everywhere I work.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by apitman »

explosion-s wrote: post #69
safetytrick wrote: post #45

With a dependency on a font. Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that.

Fairly commonplace for TUIs that use icon. Tons of vim plugins rely on NerdFonts (A regular monospace font that also includes tons of icons)

Is there any technical reason the font can't be shipped in the binary and installed automatically?

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by apitman »

wormius wrote: post #141
LAC-Tech wrote: post #140

What is a "nerd font" and why does this app need one? (Yes I know I could look it up but maybe this will spark a discussion)

Nerd Fonts contain glyphs that allow things like the git strip you see at the bottom of code editors ("powerline"), along with ligatures (e.g. if you type https://www.nerdfonts.com/ And here's an example of ligatures (see the image on the right - you type what's on the left, and the right image is what shows in your editor): https://hilton.org.uk/blog/fira-code I think but am not sure as I haven't looked in a while,…

Are there any terminals that ship with nerd fonts, or is it always something that has to be at the OS level?

Is there any technical reason the font can't be shipped in the binary and installed automatically?

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by baobun »

fernly wrote: post #102

My goodness but there is a whole lot of these! (Found the below table from the Nnn wiki page, mentioned above.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers

For anyone else (considering) switching file manager: Check if it depends on the gvfs package or not. You either want it (virtual filesystem support, stuff working "out of the box", background daemon, DE integrations) or you don't.

So there's one factor to cut the search-space in ~half :)

I'm recently trying out worker[0] and so far it's great.

[0]: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/index.html

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by sweeter »

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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the difference between fumbling around a GUI file manager looking for the correctly named file and using one of the many solutions the terminal offers is night and day. GUI's are clumsy and prone to extremely odd failures where the only solution is to exit and reset. Greyed out buttons when they shouldnt be etc... The terminal doesn't have these problems, if something fails you can see the error, its immediately responsive always, its composable and scriptable. Consider cutting up audio clips in audacity, doing it by hand can take ages and the GUI can crash and screw you over. With the terminal you can just take 2 minutes to write a burner script and use it and be done in seconds. Its really hard to describe the positives of the terminal over a GUI because they are radically different things, and new users are going to have a tough time setting up a friendly environment, but if you can get past that its extremely easy to see why they handle certain tasks a million times more efficient and resiliently.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

#150

Post by eviks »

friend_and_foe wrote: post #120
eviks wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GUIs recognize keyboard as a valid input option

True, but most GUIs are built with the mouse in mind, and at best slap some ctrl keybinds on as an afterthought. Hamburger menus and flat whitespace are cumbersome.

Is it better to have nothing instead of a hamburger menu like this app does (according to its screenshot)? Also, what isn't flat in this app?
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