[PLUG] GUI Rename Oddity

[Dick Steffens]

On 11/14/18 4:20 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Good point. I have various problems with different parts of Ubuntu MATE
>> 18.04, Compiz or Marco, and with Linux Mint 19 MATE. When I get some 
>> free
>> time I'm going to give Rich's favorite distro, Slackware, and see how it
>> does with my occasional odd use cases.
>
> Dick,
>
>   I'm asking you the same question I asked John: have you looked at mc
> (midnight commander)? It uses either screen or ncurses so it's a 
> text-based
> "GUI" file manager that is quite popular and very robust. If you want to
> know about tweaking its configuration I'm sure Ed Koenig will be happy to
> educate you. :-)

I'll give it some thought.

>> Sometimes I think I'm in a situation where some cool new features or bug
>> fixes were done to a version that introduced new ones, and I'll just 
>> have
>> to wait for the next release for them to go away. Sigh.
>
>   I'm not specifically advocating for Slackware but sharing information
> relevant to your issue. The core developers stay well back from the 
> bleeding
> edges of applications and tools. The supplemental SlackBuilds.org package
> maintainers add several hundred (thousands?) of additional packages 
> that are
> not in the core distribution. When a SBo package has a bug or build 
> error an
> e-mail to the package maintainer almost always gets a helpful response
> within a day. Many of them are in Europe, Asia, and Australia so there's
> always a time zone difference that makes communications fun.

Stable sounds great to me. I really will give it a try when I have the time.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens