In the pursuit of the Ultimate Orthodox File Manager
First I should clarify what an Orthodox File Manager (OFM) is just a file manger inspired by the father of all OFM: Norton Commander. NC was written by John Socha and released in 1986. There is even an website dedicated for storing information about and the history of these Orthodox file managers: OFM.
Currently I’m using FAR Manager and Midnight Commander, both of them free and open-source but I’m not too happy with them because:
- MC is wrote in C and in maintenance mode for ages, I’ve looked over the code and only a masochist would be happy to improve it.
- FAR Manager became open-source an is developed by a team of Russian programmers. The biggest problem I’ve faces with it is that the development team is communicating mostly in Russia
n and they do not agree to switch to English. Even the source control commits are in Russian and the code is full of Russian texts.
What other file manager I used in the past:
- Total Commander – commercial and they added Unicode a “little” bit too late
- Dos Navigator – I’ve loved it in the MS-DOS age but sad that it was coded in Pascal – it’s something without a real future.
I was hoping for quite some years to have some time and start working on a new, open-source, file manager having these features:
- multiplatform: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
- TUI and GUI interface implemented using MVC pattern
- possibility to run operations (like copy) in background as tasks
- extensible using plug-ins
As a development language I would choose Python because the code would be really easy to extend and the development speed would be quite good.
I would spend time working on an editor because it would be very time consuming and because you can always integrate a good existing editor with the file manager.
The problem is that this kind of project required quite some time and more than one developer in order to succeed.
I’ve looked over the net looking for others looking for something similar but failed to find something interesting – just abandonware like pyAdmiral.
So any one interested?!
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Aș fi interesat. Eu am creat pt. soția mea un calendar electronic, dar m-a enervat o problemă: paștele catolic îl pot calcula pe baza unei formule ușor de găsit pe google, dar cel ortodox… Să fie vorba de transparență?
Deși am spus “ca primaru’” că sunt interesat, aș vrea să știu căteva detalii, tehnice și nu numai.
Eventual, cum cred că ai deja o variantă alpha, să mă lași să văd ‘cu ce se mănâncă’.
Am un proiect similar pentru nokia,(pys60), dar din lipsă de timp chiar și titulatura de proiect e utopică.
Altfel spus, sunt și curios și interesat de proiect!
Cred ca nu ai inteles bine despre ce este vorba – proiectul nu are nici o legatura cu religia ortodoxa.