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Old 02-19-2017, 02:51 AM   #6211
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Right-clicking. You mean you right-click and then click on “rename”? That’s not what I meant. I meant where you can click on the file name and immediately edit the name without having to select “rename” from a menu. This is a feature which is in macOS and also Windows. I’m surprised that every Linux distribution I’ve tried is lacking this feature, and I don’t know of any program which makes it possible.
The slow double click to rename is indeed a nice feature in Windows. It's also now in Cinnamon (merged in by Clement Lefebvre in 2015): you can enable it in Nemo with Edit->Preferences->Behaviour->Click on a file's name twice to rename it.
 
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Old 02-19-2017, 07:42 AM   #6212
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The slow double click to rename is indeed a nice feature in Windows. It's also now in Cinnamon (merged in by Clement Lefebvre in 2015): you can enable it in Nemo with Edit->Preferences->Behaviour->Click on a file's name twice to rename it.
Nice find, hydrurga! And Nemo can be installed without Cinnamon in at least some other DE's too. I just tested in Linux Lite with XFCE and it works just as you described. One thing I noticed is that the 2nd click must be on the file or folder's name, not it's icon (1st click on icon is okay.) It also doesn't work on desktop items, so just items inside a Nemo window. (Now to go disable it again since I don't care for that "feature." )

And I just realized, counting one-two, that right-click file/folder, left-click rename is the exact same as left click file/folder, left click it again... doesn't save any clicks! OK, it saves dragging the mouse down the menu option to choose the Rename selection.
 
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Old 02-19-2017, 07:50 AM   #6213
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Well for ages if I've had to do a clean install and had windows on another partition, I copied the fonts to 4 places:
1 .fonts a new folder in home,
2. /usr/share/fonts
3. /usr/local/share/fonts
4. If Microsoft Office is installed in playonlinux to the .playonlinux/Office whatever I have/drive_c:\Windows\Fonts.

Yes I know playonlinux will install the minimum for you, but there are fonts I need.

There are tutorials how to download and install via a terminal ttf.microsoft fonts also.
Yeah, I’ve installed them via ttf.microsoft fonts a couple times. But recently, that method hasn’t worked. I thought it might just be an Ubuntu issue. In which case, I emailed the Ubuntu maintainer about the issue and he said "this seems like an upstream issue (at least with the
downloads) but the drop privilege problem also exists (though maybe
it's a non-issue?)
"
 
Old 02-19-2017, 10:15 PM   #6214
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I like communication applications like asterisk http://www.asterisk.org and freeswitch.org be offered as bundle with reknown linux destributions
 
Old 02-23-2017, 05:23 PM   #6215
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Webster Dictionary or an American source as options

The default dictionary used by Libreoffice Writer favors the English spelling of words and confuses me as well as the kids. I've never learned enough about Linux and the open-sourced softwares to understand how to change dictionaries. I prefer favor to favour since I'm a U.S. resident. Anybody who can tutor me on this is most welcomed.

I would like to install either Merriam-Webster or New American.
 
Old 02-23-2017, 06:07 PM   #6216
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The default dictionary used by Libreoffice Writer favors the English spelling of words and confuses me as well as the kids. I've never learned enough about Linux and the open-sourced softwares to understand how to change dictionaries. I prefer favor to favour since I'm a U.S. resident. Anybody who can tutor me on this is most welcomed.

I would like to install either Merriam-Webster or New American.
In LibreOffice Writer, Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages: set User interface, Locale setting and Default Languages for Documents (Western) all to Default-English (USA). If you can't find that option, please let us know.
 
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Old 02-23-2017, 06:23 PM   #6217
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Thumbs up Thank you!

Found the language settings under options and followed through as instructed. THANK YOU!
 
Old 02-23-2017, 06:24 PM   #6218
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Found the language settings under options and followed through as instructed. THANK YOU!
My pleasure. Enjoy!
 
Old 02-26-2017, 06:57 AM   #6219
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Please pass viewing order between file manager and image viewer

This is an update to my comments earlier in this thread. I use Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon.

As a former Win XP user for many years, the thing I most regretted about moving to Linux was that when when clicking on an image in the file manager, the image viewer that popped up would only show things in alphabetical order (when looking at the next or previous images) rather than the order you had them sorted in in the file manager.

A partial solution to this was to use gthumb as the default image viewer, which hidden in its sub-menus has the option to show files sorted by name, size, or date, and in ascending or descending order. Gthumb is very slow - large files take many seconds to load up.

But now I have found something that is much better - mcomix. Hidden deep within its menus it also offers the option of browsing the images in a folder by name, size, or date, ascending or descending (the earlier version comix does not offer this). (It is also possible to turn off the irritating thumbnails on the left). The advantage over gthumb includes being very fast due to pre-loading I think - even large images load instantly.

Despite mcomix being principally known as a viewer of comics images in compressed files, it is also excellent as an image viewer. I have now set it as my default image viewer and it works very well and fast.

My request and suggestion is that programmers allow file managers to pass the viewing order to image viewers in addition to the address of the image file. Only six options are sufficient - order by name, size, or date, and in ascending and descending order. Similarly image viewers have to look for and make use of this information. If the format was standardised then any file manager should work with any image viewer.

Another request is that file managers remember previous destinations for file copying etc, as instead of having to do lots of repetitive clicking to the same destination, you could choose from a menu list of the last say ten destinations. This would save a lot of time tedium and irritation. In Windows I found XYplorerfree was invaluable for offering this, unfortunately it does not work within Wine. In Linux Double Commander can do this, and also shows images in the right order if you use the internal image viewer evoked by F3.

If the above suggestions were taken up, then Linux would stop being like driving a klunky steam-engine and become a sports car.
 
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Old 02-26-2017, 08:51 AM   #6220
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Just tried mcomix and it is better than gThumb, but still not as good, IMHO, as Gwenview.
 
Old 02-26-2017, 03:33 PM   #6221
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That left click only feature may be on MacOS since I only used Mac once way back in the year 2000 and never after that. I was a Windows user and you are mistaken about how it works in Windows. Windows and Linux are the same when it comes to renaming. You have to right click first and select rename with a left click.
No, you only need to hit F2 to rename files or directories, at least in KDE dolphin. The only real problem in Linux is the huge surface of customizations available, kde vs gnome, a horde of package managers, multiple file managers and graphic servers, minimize, maximize and comp buttons shuffled like a spaghetti, and the fact that so many users accustomed with windoze or mac way of doings hit the wrong wall again and again.
 
Old 02-26-2017, 06:20 PM   #6222
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No, you only need to hit F2 to rename files or directories, at least in KDE dolphin....
Ditto Gwenview.
 
Old 02-28-2017, 06:13 PM   #6223
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Just tried mcomix and it is better than gThumb, but still not as good, IMHO, as Gwenview.
I had not realised that Gwenview also had the options, hidden in its menus, of ordering by name size or date, and in ascending or descending order. I have not used either Gwenview or Mcomix enough to have an opinion on which one is better.

So Gwenview, Mcomix, Gthumb, and DoubleCommander using the internal F3 viewer, all allow viewing of images in various orders and not just alphabetically.

As I suggest above, I wish file managers would communicate the desired order of viewing in addition to the image address, and that image viewers would look for and use this. Less than three bits of information.

Another wish is that file viewers both delete to "trash"/"rubbish bin" rather than just disappearing files, AND that they also ask for confirmation of deletion. Mcomix only does the former, I recall that Gthumb only does the latter.

Edit: Linux could steal a march on Windows by making it standard for programs to output a short file (in standardised format and preferably also human-readable) of parameters which the evoked program could look through to see if it had any information it could use.

Last edited by grumpyskeptic; 03-01-2017 at 06:55 AM.
 
Old 02-28-2017, 06:50 PM   #6224
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As I suggest above, I wish file managers would communicate the desired order of viewing in addition to the image address, and that image viewers would look for and use this. Less than three bits of information.

Another wish is that file viewers both delete to "trash"/"rubbish bin" rather than just disappearing files, and that they also ask for confirmation of deletion. Mcomix only does the former, I recall that Gthumb only does the latter.
Gwenview deletes to trash by default.
You should check out all the settings for Dolphin, the KDE file manager. Ditto Konqueror which was the default KDE file manager before Dolphin. Konqueror is the KDE browser, but can still be used as a file manager, instead of Dolphin. It can be set as the default file manager in the system settings.
 
Old 03-02-2017, 05:54 AM   #6225
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Personally, I think that XNView is the best image viewer/organiser. It's commercial software, though FREE for personal use, and reasonably priced for commercial use. I love the batch processing and EXIF features, and the ability to sort and filter by file types etc., is up there with the best. http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/
 
  


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