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Originally Posted by slim View Post
It's funny you mention this. I was just thinking about the merits of a Commander-style file manager for the tablets. Does such a thing exist?

Rather than port emelfm2, which seems well-suited for a desktop, it might be better to write a finger-friendly version from scratch. Because of limited screen space (and the fact that it would be written from scratch), initial versions would probably only include the most commonly used features. What functionality would you think was important? I was thinking:

browse
jump-to folder
move
copy
delete
rename
create folder
open
sort (?)
restore (?)
set permission (?)
change owner (?)
search (?)

Options would include:
ask before overwrite
ask before delete

It would be interesting to design an interface for this. For example, a file/folder could be placed in a "trash" folder by sliding it off the side of the screen. The trash folder could be accessed by panning the screen to, for example, the left, thus making the left folder the right folder and the trash folder the left folder. Essentially, there would be a three-folder rotation with only two displayed at any time.

To manage single-folder tasks (such as set permission, change owner), it might make sense to hide the second folder, opening up a wider table view with permission and owner columns.

There would be no scroll bars. For finger-friendliness, the folder view would be similar to the mail folder view in Modest.

OK, I'm done brainstorming for now.
Good but emelfm2 can do this already it`s just need hildonization
and some improvement to just slide (yes slide not switch , like total commander for win mobile )between pans