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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by tambourine_man »

thfuran wrote: post #137
quesera wrote: post #66

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> Mac OS itself confuses things by forcing apps to be full screen, rather than sizing to the content I don't understand what you mean. macOS has never forced apps to be full screen.

It doesn't force applications to be fullscreen, but it does have garbage tooling for managing multiple windows on the screen simultaneously. Even windows has better with hotkeys and gestures for snapping to parts of the screen.

Mac OS originally didn’t have the concept of full screen (expect for games, pro software) or tiling. Its floating, overlapping and spatially oriented windows blew people's minds. It was coherent and wonderfully executed, both powerful and simple, I miss it dearly.

During the OS X brain transplant and particularly after Lion it became a hybrid that’s neither here or there, unfortunately.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by terminaltrove »

pandemic_region wrote: post #173
terminaltrove wrote: post #46

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

Thanks for the terminal trove tip ! Subscribed. I feel the market is ripe for a terminal ide again. Anything interesting going in in that space?

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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by stefandesu »

shdisi wrote: post #113

I tried this out and within a few minutes had delete a few directories. Luckily I was in a git repo but I still immediately uninstalled this

When did you try it and do you have an idea why it could have happened? I'm simply curious about it, but this doesn't sound great. I found this issue [1] which should have been fixed in version 1.1.1 [2].

[1]: https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/issues/72 [2]: https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/releases/tag/v1.1.1

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by apitman »

pinusc wrote: post #198
apitman wrote: post #191

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I very well might be in the minority of Linux users, but I don't particularly care about the answers to most of these questions. I just want it to work. Give me solid defaults[0]. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to override those defaults. That's an important feature of Linux. My first experience running a cool-looking TUI file manager yesterday (I actually ended up trying yazi first) was that I got a lot of bla…

Regardless of wanting sane defaults, this is not something superfile can do on itself: it runs in a terminal, and normally terminal programs do not get to choose what font is used. So the "best" it could do is bundle the font file, but then you would still have to configure your terminal to use it. At that point, it's easier to just tell you you need a nerd font and link to their repo. That being said, I kind of agre…

Would it be possible for the program to detect that the current font doesn't support all the features you need and tell you?

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by medstrom »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #190
medstrom wrote: post #181

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I don't know about Charm so maybe someone can check their Github, but there's a dark pattern where you market yourself as open source but not all your components are actually released to the public, so you have a nice GitHub icon on your front page that just leads to silly minor extensions but not the main software. ObsidianMD does it.

Where does Obsidian claim they’re open source? Where have they ever done that? And no, having a GitHub icon does not magically announce to the world “we are open source”. In fact, their license page makes it abundantly clear they are not open source: > We own and reserve rights to our content, including text, images, and code in the app, which is protected by copyright and other laws. https://obsidian.md/license I ge…

It may not be Obsidian's fault, but I know people who were indeed surprised. And are you suggesting that people normally click the license page?

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Post by qwery »

apitman wrote: post #192
qwery wrote: post #182

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There's no technical reason the font couldn't be shipped in/with the binary. The main reasons this doesn't happen are probably: - this is what a package manager is for - installing the font/s (from the application?) would be a bit of a dick move and also presents a technical challenge (in other words: that's what a package manager is for) - concerns about the efficiency of many applications all shipping duplicate ass…

> this is what a package manager is for My first experience running a cool-looking TUI file manager yesterday (I actually ended up trying yazi first) was that I got a lot of blank squares in place of missing icons and emojis due to missing fonts. I had to spend 20 minutes figuring that out before I got a good experience. Interestingly, I also tried wezterm[1] in the process. It actually ships with the required fonts…

> it's possible for app developers to provide good defaults like wezterm does. It's also possible for distro's to break those defaults.

Absolutely, yes. No disagreement from me. I'm just guessing at why someone might choose not to for this particular case.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by stormking »

medstrom wrote: post #180
anigbrowl wrote: post #89

brew install superfile (ok) superfile (not found) find superfile (not sound) cd /usr/local/Cellar/superfile/1.1.2/bin ls spf This is mentioned in the tutorial but it's probably worth mentioning in the install section to save people 5-10 minutes of confusion. Once I found the filename I loved it.

Or even provide superfile as an alias which prints a message saying "you can also call it as spf", once a day. People don't read install sections.

The problem is that it's not mentioned in the installation instructions, only in the tutorial.
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