Re:Show HN: Marta – A fast and minimalistic file manager for...
by mmjaa on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:36AM
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>Why should they? I don't want the column sizes to change under me, I want them to stay as they were left.
Well, I want the window to expand to show me the content of the folder and the file metadata without me having to do anything special - no hotkeys, no special zones to remember.
This would make it actually useful, as a utility, rather than something I have to service, as a user, on a frequent basis in order to get the details I want.
It just seems so obviously broken and such an obvious feature that I can't think why it isn't being done .. nearly every other file-system explorer interface I use, on Linux and occasionally Windows, can show this information properly through auto layout without human intervention .. yet Finder is some kind of special.
Well, I want the window to expand to show me the content of the folder and the file metadata without me having to do anything special - no hotkeys, no special zones to remember.
This would make it actually useful, as a utility, rather than something I have to service, as a user, on a frequent basis in order to get the details I want.
It just seems so obviously broken and such an obvious feature that I can't think why it isn't being done .. nearly every other file-system explorer interface I use, on Linux and occasionally Windows, can show this information properly through auto layout without human intervention .. yet Finder is some kind of special.