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Originally posted by debianxfce View PostAt the end of the day more advanced gnome users are tweaking gnome3 to look like traditional desktops, so this article is just nationalistic and religious hype.
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As someone who moves files on a regular basis, in the DOS era I found a wonderful program called Norton Commander and never looked back. When Explorer-like GUIs became a thing, luckily for me commander-like programs appeared for GUI too (I couldn't stress enough how much I don't like working with explorer-like file managers, multiple panes or not). Total Commander was my main tool back in the windows days, now it is excellent Double Commander - two panes, multiple tabs, everything at my disposal via keyboard, no mis-clicks or anything, almost perfect tool if you are not too dependant on mouse to do file operations (you can, of course, do everything with mouse too, if you want, but it is much more "precise" with keyboard, at least for me). So, Nautilus/Thunar/Dolphin/etc are something I use just until I install DC
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Originally posted by Darakus View PostWith Shotwell I would say
In Nautilus I typically move files by cut and paste, but if you prefer to drag and drop, you could always open a new Nautilus window and drag and drop between them. I don't have any local music files so I can't really say the best way to manage those, although I think Rhythmbox is more full featured than GNOME Music.
Again I don't really know for music files, but Nautilus has supported batch rename since 3.22. (just select multiple files and right click > rename)
Opening another nautilus is not a practical option for me cause it would occupy much more space than a split view.
I tried rythmbox and there is too much functionality missing for me compared to amarok. And I am not even completely satisfied with amarok anymore. Could be faster and better maintained.
For batch renaming I meant something more sophisticated than 1 2 3 or every file same name. I think of naming by exif data like date for photos etc.
However, thanks for the useful reply!
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Originally posted by sdack View PostI'm afraid, but your problem is your own doing. You are expecting for one desktop to become exactly like another, which is just very unlikely going to happen. Instead, when you truly want to use a different desktop even just for a short time do you need to change your habits, too, or you will definitely have problems.
Originally posted by sdack View PostOne can certainly drag'n'drop files with Nautilus and you don't even need to split a window in half. You can drag'n'drop from the main pane into the side pane and thus into a different directory for example. This does not require to split a window or to open a new one. But for more complex drag'n'drop can one open as many windows as necessary and perform drag'n'drop between them. In that sense is Nautilus already split when used with it's side pane, but can be split into N windows, too. So you aren't limited.
However I knew those already. drag'n'drop from the main pane into the side pane is not practical for me because most of the time it involves much vertical scrolling while my displays are 16:9, thus horizontal dragndrop is usually faster. And imho multiple windows occupy too much space cause the side pane is duplicated.
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Originally posted by sdack View PostNo. If you've been long enough in the business will you've learned how to avoid coping and moving files around, because it's just inefficient and a waste of time. Anyone needing advanced capabilities for this will simply have a developed a bad habit of being very inefficient with files.
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Originally posted by dkasak View PostAh, Children. Nothing like an article on window managers to bring out the "my dog's better than your dog" debates.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View Post
So just open two windows? Or open two tabs? It's not like the absence of a split-pane view makes it impossible (or even difficult) to move stuff between two folders...
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