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If you find this interesting, you'll find eagle mode to be 100x as cool: http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/ http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

bassman9000 9y ago
This is so cool. Thanks.
rosstex 9y ago
For Mac?
- scrumper 9y ago
  Not without extensive work. It relies on X windows which is no longer part of OSX. You'd have to at a minimum get XQuartz up and running, satisfy quite an extensive dependency list (http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/SystemRequirements.html http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/SystemRequirements.html), then try to build Eagle Mode on Mac and no doubt wrestle with more than a few incompatibilities, just to get something that doesn't look remotely like a Mac app. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea. It's the first thing I looked for too!
KGIII 9y ago
LOL I opened this thread to post exactly that. It's not very practical, in my experience, but it is a great time waster and a lot of fun. I'd suggest the unfamiliar check out the video.
BoppreH 9y ago
I used eaglemode as my main file manager for a long time. I know the poster before me says it's not practical, but I had a great experience. Zooming in nested folders is cool, but the features most useful in day-to-day life were: - Zooming in the corners of a file to see detailed information (size and disk space down to the individual bytes, hexadecimal representation of contents, some other stuff I don't remember). - Instant visualization of almost any document (images, videos, audio, pdf (with pages side by side!), html, txt, doc, etc) straight from the file manager, with no additional clicks. - Transparently navigating inside compressed archives (after a warning tunnel saying that this operation could be expensive). - The two-selections mechanic for file operations, which I have never seen before or after, is incredibly intuitive after three tries and works well across a variety of operations. - All configuration is laid on a single panel, also zoomable, with detailed information laid as a (initially) minuscule text right beside each option. - It's just plain impressive, and a great conversation starter. Unfortunately I had to stop using it because it was getting harder and harder to satisfy the numerous dependencies to keep media visualization working. This is even more problematic in Windows, which is a shame.

bassman9000 9y ago

This is so cool. Thanks.

rosstex 9y ago

For Mac?

scrumper 9y ago
Not without extensive work. It relies on X windows which is no longer part of OSX. You'd have to at a minimum get XQuartz up and running, satisfy quite an extensive dependency list (http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/SystemRequirements.html http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/SystemRequirements.html), then try to build Eagle Mode on Mac and no doubt wrestle with more than a few incompatibilities, just to get something that doesn't look remotely like a Mac app. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea. It's the first thing I looked for too!

KGIII 9y ago

LOL I opened this thread to post exactly that. It's not very practical, in my experience, but it is a great time waster and a lot of fun. I'd suggest the unfamiliar check out the video.

BoppreH 9y ago

I used eaglemode as my main file manager for a long time. I know the poster before me says it's not practical, but I had a great experience. Zooming in nested folders is cool, but the features most useful in day-to-day life were: - Zooming in the corners of a file to see detailed information (size and disk space down to the individual bytes, hexadecimal representation of contents, some other stuff I don't remember). - Instant visualization of almost any document (images, videos, audio, pdf (with pages side by side!), html, txt, doc, etc) straight from the file manager, with no additional clicks. - Transparently navigating inside compressed archives (after a warning tunnel saying that this operation could be expensive). - The two-selections mechanic for file operations, which I have never seen before or after, is incredibly intuitive after three tries and works well across a variety of operations. - All configuration is laid on a single panel, also zoomable, with detailed information laid as a (initially) minuscule text right beside each option. - It's just plain impressive, and a great conversation starter. Unfortunately I had to stop using it because it was getting harder and harder to satisfy the numerous dependencies to keep media visualization working. This is even more problematic in Windows, which is a shame.