[geeks] DST hell

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Mar 12 10:35:27 CDT 2007


On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:11:17PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> A GUI is a hell of a lot faster for certain classes of file browsing and
> manipulation, so it is convienient then.
> 
> You use the GUI until it becomes a liability, and then fire off a shell.
> 
> Likewise you can use a CLI until it becomes a liability, and just fire
> up your favorite GUI file browser wherever you currently are.
> 
> Most good UNIX GUI file tools work well with the shell.

I would like to see a unix file browser with a shell at the bottom of
each window, with a cwd of the displayed window.  It could start out as
1 line, but be draggable to enlarge to numerous lines.



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