request: queue, fileassoc...

[mukka]

Hello!

Im really impressed by muC. Great Work!

I have some suggestion:
in parallel with building in the copy/move in background function, it would be a great feature if the user could put the files in a copy/move queue.
It's also good at normal file operations - as the user doesn't make high disk load with copying multiple threads at the same time - and for network file transfers.
-as other users I also miss the file association for editing and viewing

-BUG: muC can't operate with some badly converted accented characters. in mc it looks like '?'-s, but I'm able to rename/delete them. In muC Im not able to enter those directories or do anything with them.
-in Ubuntu/Debian there is no menu entry for the muC, and there is no icon.
Im thinking about making stable and nightly deb builds.

Keep up the good work!

[Nicolas]

Hey there,

Thanks for praises, we're quite proud of muCommander, yes :)
I'll let Maxence answer the bit about transfer queuing, I quite like the idea, but he's the one who's going to write the transfer manager so it's all up to him

Regarding the file association: I don't think people miss it anymore, the feature has been implemented :)
Check that thread out and let me know if it answers your needs:
http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=420

About the debian package: is there anything wrong with the one we distribute from the homepage? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by 'no menu entry' - does muCommander's main menu bar not appear? Wow, that's a major bug and must make it hard to use... can you give me a bit more information about that?

Thanks!
Nicolas

[mukka]

Regarding the file association: I don't think people miss it anymore, the feature has been implemented
Check that thread out and let me know if it answers your needs:
http://www.mucommander.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=420

Thx, I've missed that thread.

About the debian package: is there anything wrong with the one we distribute from the homepage? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by 'no menu entry' - does muCommander's main menu bar not appear?

No, I've just wanted to say that the .deb packages (both stable and nightly) don't put muC entry into Gnome's menu (I'm using Ubuntu Feisty).

This is especially bad for newbies, as they won't be able to find the installed program.

Bye,
Mukka

[Nicolas]

Oh ok, I get it. Yes, you're right, our .deb is fairly basic - installs muCommander in a directory that makes sense and creates a link to the startup script in /usr/bin.

It'd be great if you could show us how to make it add muCommander in the Gnome menus. It'd be even more amazing if this could be done in a system-safe fashion: "if gnome installed, add to the menu. Otherwise, skip". If there's a way to do that, I'll be sure to integrate it in our .deb release file.

By the way... you're having file association problems under Gnome?? Now that's a bug. In theory, we recognize Gnome at boot time and rely on it to provide us with file associations. So any file that Gnome knows how to open, muCommander should be able to open as well.
If that's not the case on your system, could you give me more information? What happens when you try to open a file? Is there an "Open in Nautilus" item in the right click menu? This sort of things. I'll try and debug that problem as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Nicolas

[mukka]

It'd be great if you could show us how to make it add muCommander in the Gnome menus. It'd be even more amazing if this could be done in a system-safe fashion: "if gnome installed, add to the menu. Otherwise, skip". If there's a way to do that, I'll be sure to integrate it in our .deb release file.

I'll look after it.

So any file that Gnome knows how to open, muCommander should be able to open as well.

The opening is working perfectly, but I want to set different editing tools. FE when I'm pressing F4 for php/perl/xml -> gvim, for jpg/gif/etc -> gimp.
Now, I've this in my preferences.xml

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    <editor>                                                                                                                                   
        <use_custom>true</use_custom>                                                                                                         
        <custom_command>gvim $f</custom_command>                                                                                               
    </editor>   

The 'Open with...' is ok, but it'd be more user friendly if I can configure the default for edit also.


Besides that another option would be helpful:
-optionally: holding down the right mouse button can select multiple files (as 'space' now does)
-there can be a variable which gives the list of selected files to the programs.($list_of_files)

advantages: fe mp3, you are listening the music, select 10 files from the dir, and choose open with...-> 'add to playlist'.

and in the commands.xml:

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<command alias="add to playlist"  value="costum_music_player --files_to _add_playlist $list_of_files"/>     


Bye,
Mukka

[Nicolas]

Hey there,

I completely forgot to tell you: muCommander has had that 'multiple files in command' feature for a while. If you have more than one file marked, $f will expand to all marked files rather than the selected one.

Cheers,
Nicolas