Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: graphical file managers

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Dexter Filmore wrote:

[snip list of file managers Dexter has tried]

> I've tried anything I could find on freshmeat, on google and Bob knows where,
> not one suits my needs. They all suck in some ways, some more, some less.
> Oh, XandrOS' XFM (not to be confused with xfm) is quite an approach, but
> unfortunately not open src and only comes with XandrOS (whose KDE2 is utterly
> outdated).
> 
> If I could find the time I'd learn C[++] and code it myself, unfortunately I
> can't spare the time rigth now (and don't know if I ever will).

Why not look into modifying an existing file manager to suit your needs,
rather than starting from scratch? Gentoo is quite small and probably a good
place to start.

Alternatively, rather than learning C[++], learning something like Python,
particularly in combination with wxGTK and wxPython, will probably result in
much more instant gratification, especially if you insist on building an
application such as this from scratch.

> Dex

Best Regards,
Alex.
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