OneFinger - The One File Manager |
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News3 Dec 2004: OneFinger 3.0 will be released in a few hours. With this release, OneFinger is a completely new program: it does not require knowledge of the shell language anymore. Instead, it has two "modes": MIME mode and CLI mode. CLI mode is like the old OneFinger; MIME mode is more similar to traditional file-managers (but with the benefits of the history panel and the program panel).The whole site has been rewritten for the occasion. 5 nov 2004: OneFinger 2.4 released. This release fixes a major bug, and introduces a major new feature: OneFinger now knows the files you opened with any KDE application. This means that the history panel now also shows files opened outside OneFinger. For example, if you open a text file in KWrite, with KWrite's file menu, the file immediately shows in OneFinger's history panel. And the files in this panel can be completely manipulated, as if you were looking at them from their own konqueror window. A more detailed list of changes will soon appear here. 5 nov 2004: OneFinger 2.3.2 released. One major speed-up and one major new feature. The list of changes will soon appear here. 4 nov 2004: the screenshots page and this page have been modified to better point out some unique features of OneFinger. 4 nov 2004: OneFinger 2.3.1 released. One minor bugfix: the listbox items were not highlighted on mouseover when selected. This could be disturbing. 3 nov 2004: OneFinger 2.3 released. Major new features in this release. Upgrading is a must. The list of changes will soon appear here. 2 nov 2004: kicker applet 1.2.3. There was a problem with sourceforge that caused the "kicker applet" package to be unusable (the configure file was missing). This is true for both version 1.1 and 1.2 of the kicker applet. I have uploaded the applet again now, and I changed the version number to 1.2.3 to avoid confusions. So, the current kicker applet 1.2.3 should work. 2 nov 2004: Version 2.2.2 released. Two major bugfixes were done: drag and drop was not working, and the "close terminated output windows" button wasn't working either. Sorry for the inconvenience. 1 nov 2004: version 2.2.1 released. Fixed a major bug which caused OneFinger to crash at startup if you were not using the "nuvola" icon theme for KDE. 1 nov 2004: version 2.2 released. Major new features and major bugfixes. The screenshots page has been updated for the occasion, with new pictures and explanations. The installation instructions in the download page have been rewritten too. The updated list of changes will soon appear here. 30 oct 2004: version 2.1 released. Major new features and minor bugfixes. The updated list of changes will soon appear here. 28 oct 2004: A new screenshot of the CVS version is up. OneFinger can now use the KDE icons. The difference is noticeable. 27 oct 2004: version 2.0 released. Major new features and major bugfixes. The changelog is available here. 24 oct 2004: A new screenshot of the CVS version is up. The only thing preventing a new release is that the docs aren't ready. Contributions are welcome. 13 oct 2004: The OneFinger kicker applet is now available in CVS. The applet integrates OneFinger into KDE; it can replace the kde taskbar and allows dragging files from external apps to OneFinger. The applet is meant to be used with the CVS version of OneFinger. See the "download" section for info how to get the applet. 8 Oct 2004: added screenshot of the upcoming 2.0 version. 25 sep 2004: Version 1.9 released. There are major new features. Most notable:
24 sep 2004: Version 1.8 released. This release contains major new features. Briefly: 1. added mime support to better suggest programs; 2. added a new panel which can act (A) as a taskbar (B) paste WIds in the command line (this is useful to simulate drag and drop, thus bypassing the individual programs' file managers). 20 sep 2004: Packages for mandrake cooker 9.1 are now available. 19 Sep 2004: Version 1.1.1 released. There are some major bugfixes from 1.0, and some new features as well. |
About OneFingerWelcome to the home page of OneFinger, a file manager and a general-purpose GUI (graphical user interface) for Linux. Here are some unique features of OneFinger: The history panelOneFinger has a dynamic panel which can contain files from multiple directories. It is called the "history panel". Depending on the situation, this panel can become:
The first thing to notice is that the items in the history panel are "first-class citizens", i.e. they can be completely manipulated. For example, you can delete a file you see in the history panel without first opening its containing directory. But the most important feature of the history panel is its capability to show the recent directories, because this enables faster navigation, while leaving the taskbar uncluttered. Let me explain this in detail. When you work, you usually move continuously among a bunch of directories (which are "important" in the current situation). To improve navigation speed between those directories, you usually leave many file manager windows open, each in one directory. Unfortunately, this has some serious drawbacks:
To solve this problem, web browsers introduced "tabbed browsing". Unfortunately, tabbed browsing only solves the first problem, whereas OneFinger's history panel solves both. The panel contains a history of directories which:
Other featuresHere are some other features that are unique to OneFinger:
Miscellaneous informationsOneFinger is created by Maurizio Colucci (email: seguso.forever@tin.it). OneFinger is free software, licensed under the GPL. OneFinger works under GNU/Linux. OneFinger is the evolution of the program Logical Desktop, by the same author. OneFinger is written entirely as a python script, so it is very easy to run. OneFinger is dedicated to Richard Wagner, the greatest artist of all times. |