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[edit] File Manager is not Windows Manager
In no way File managers are a special type of Windows Managers. While some file managers may have rudimentary Windows management capabilities all this spacial metaphor is completly misplaced. There is no such thing.
- The article didn't say that a file manager was a window manager. That's not what it was saying about spatial file managers. Guy Harris 18:32, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] File Manager is not Program Manager
You must be confused; File Manager from Windows 3.x (winfile.exe) is not accressible from later versions of Windows. progman.exe refers to the Program Manager, which is in all Windows versions from 3.x to XP. --216.102.163.218 01:32, 23 September 2005 (UTC).
[edit] A mind map would be a better "human related" user interface
Mind maps show an information structure in a way, that many people can intuitively overview, memorize and develop the informations and its structure. In fact, mind maps are tree structures as well as the structures that are managed with a file manager. So it could be helpfull to use a file manager, that would show the data structures as a mind map. But I couldn't find a software doing that. Doesn't this exist? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ChristofArn (talk • contribs) 09:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC).
- I have never used it but FreeMind seems like such a software that can be used for files as well. Pomte 04:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- i would extend it to a graph, though it is much more complex :)) i read about some experiments with guis and web(...) browsers who took graph (i suppose it was rather tree) approach. should be not hard to google it 84.16.123.194 (talk) 08:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- I have added a new entry (Knexus) to the 3D File Manager section. It's organizational structure is conceptually similar to a mind map in the sense that the organization is free-form. Context-related files, which may be diversely located, can be clustered together in the virtual space. However, Knexus is not a tree-structure. The 3D environment allows all files to be top-level, and organized in space. DrPaul0401 (talk) 15:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Dual pane manager is an incorrect term. Please do not use it
It is actually pretty misleading and technically incorrect to call Orthodox file managers "dual pane manager" as they have three windows with the command line window hidden behind two symmetric panes. And command line windows plays very prominent role in the functionality of this type of managers. Moreover most of them allow using just one pane with the second one hidden. So much for 'dual panes'.
The most distinctive feature is the presence of command line window and direct access to shell via this window not presence of two symmetric panes which is pretty superficial feature.
This is especiually important in Midnight commander and other Unix implementations (integration with bash is used).
Please do not use this incorrect term. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kievite (talk • contribs) 02:31:34, August 19, 2007 (UTC).
- "Orthodox file manager" is a silly term coined by some idiot. It doesn't appear in ANY remotely credible source. It's not in the GNU Midnight Commander docs or web page. It's not in the Jargon File. It's only cited here on jokepedia and a few other lame sites.--88.149.235.37 18:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
- jargon file isn't applicable (even if it were a reliable source - which it is not, nor is it comprehensive in any sense). So you're saying that because the term doesn't exist in one of the implementation's documentation, then no one else is allowed to describe the overall category. Tedickey 22:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Role of REXX in flist managers
REXX was introduced a couple of years after I first used flist. It was used as part of XEDIT, among other things, to replace EXEC2 (which by the way can do most of what REXX does, though less elegantly), and to implement a look-alike for FLIST using XEDIT directly. The performance of that combination was not very good (XEDIT uses a lot of memory relative to the CMS Utilities).Tedickey 17:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
