RFE - switch off confirmation

[profStoopid]

First of all: WOW! What a cool app!

I was looking for a NC clone running on Mac and Windows (forced to use the latter at work) and stumbled over muCommander two hours ago... I am stuck already. Thank you for this invaluable application.

And, important enough: I like the friendly and familiar atmosphere in your forum.

A few minor enhancements of muCommander I could figure though:

1. An option to switch off the confirmation dialogue (for the die-hard-no-risk-no-fun-users like me)

2. As mentioned in the forum before a keyboard access to the bookmarks menu would be great

3. could you please post a sample commands.xml (for the "open with ..." menu)

Thank you guys!

Cheers, Ulf

[Nicolas]

Thanks for the positive feedback, it's always welcome and is part of what makes this application worth working on :)

To answer your points:
- confirmation dialog: this is something that's in the todo, and we already laid the groundwork for it. However, we're concentrating on finishing v0.8 for the moment - mostly fixing the bugs that are reported here and creating UIs for all the configuration options we've added. It'll definitely come, just not in the next few weeks :)
- I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard access to the bookmarks menu. Can you explain a bit better? It's either something that we already have but maybe a bit hidden, or something that should be relatively quick to add.
- you can find a rather long winded explanation of the commands.xml file here: http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=420. That should tell you everything you need to know to create your custom open with menu. I'll eventually have to add something like that for the associations.xml file (create custom file associations that override the ones defined by the OS), but I frankly haven't had time yet.

Hope that helped!

Nicolas

[Nicolas]

Yes, I did answer your post as you were editing it - blows your mind away, doesn't it?

(Oh, and busted, I saw that smiley before you deleted it :)

Nicolas

[profStoopid]

- I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard access to the bookmarks menu. Can you explain a bit better? It's either something that we already have but maybe a bit hidden, or something that should be relatively quick to add.

I think of a keyboard shortcut to access the - or a kind of - bookmarks menu. In another post I read your explanation about the difficulties of writing this in a portable way (due to the "borked" Apple menus), but maybe it would be possible to use a modal dialog with the same display class as the main window (one pane).

For me this would be a killer feature, because I use bookmarks quite a lot and this is the last and only interaction which requires a mouse.

[profStoopid]

Hi Nicolas,

Yes, I did answer your post as you were editing it - blows your mind away, doesn't it?

(Oh, and busted, I saw that smiley before you deleted it

Nicolas

Does'nt surprise me - you solved 99% of my problems before I had them

Gorgeous Support!! Thanks !!!

Ulf

[Nicolas]

Re bookmark menu: ah, you don't mean a shortcut to pop the menu up but a way of navigating it properly using the keyboard.

Funny you should mention that, Maxence and I were discussing the possibility of adapting the 'typeahead' feature used by the file panels to menus. Don't know when that will happen, but it's planned, yes :)

In the meantime though, there's a slightly hidden feature that might help you: you can type the name of a bookmark in the location bar.
For example, if you have a bookmark called 'Client XYZ prod', you can:
- type in ctrl-g (go to location bar)
- type in Client XYZ prod
- type in enter
And hey presto! you're in the bookmark.

I know, I know, it's not perfect, it needs to have auto-completion to be truly useful. Adding this to the location bar and other widgets (the shell, for example), is planned, but not for the near future: a proper file search / name matching / diff / auto-completion... API is planned for after v0.8. I don't really know when we'll get around to doing that though, what usually happens is that we have this huge todo list (and I do mean huge), browse through it and start working on whatever strikes our fancy at the time. Setting up priorities and deadlines sounds too much like work for us to do that :)

Nicolas

[profStoopid]

here's a slightly hidden feature that might help you ... And hey presto! you're in the bookmark.

Hey, that does the job good enough for a while. Thanks!

Setting up priorities and deadlines sounds too much like work for us to do that.

Please don't feel urged to do something that commercial

BTW - Do you sleep sometimes?

Cheers, Ulf

[Nicolas]

I sleep during office hours - I'm making video games for a living anyway, it's not as if it required much brain power. Slap in some random violence, a bit of tasteless nudity and there you go, you have a hit :)

[foetz]

1. An option to switch off the confirmation dialogue (for the die-hard-no-risk-no-fun-users like me)

oh yes, pleeease. especially on osx it's a relief to avoid the trash but instead due to the dialogue it's a 2 step act again.
and to be clear for me the best would be to be able to disable confirmations at all. not only for deleting.

keep up the great work.