Notices

I believe you are right with this.


I think the folder ".." is nice at the 1st position as up button, but there should be something displaying the folder path.How could a menu be accessed? I would prefer no toolbar. I thought about making the ".." folder smaller and the text bigger with the folder path in it. Could look strange and still no menu buttons. Some opinions?

Well i guess you open a scrollable window, so wouldnt it be nice with the path as a small text in the top of that window. and then access the global menu by tapping that row?
Menuicons could also be icons in a row at the beginning or end of the list. which differs from normal fileicons for example with a different background?

@sethkha
First, great idea. Such a hasel to have to go programme > file, when file > programme sometimes seems a lot more logical.

Edit: thanks to electricaudio for the idea and sethhha for getting the development rolling

Now, a few ideas...

Design/implementation method
Might this be best displayed using the browser? Make a webpage to look like a file explorer: use some server-side scripts to call shell functions and then use some quick and easy css/js to parse/format the output, link thumbnails etc.?
- possibly wrap up as an xpi (mozilla plugin), instead of a deb?
- The layout would be easy to customise and the desktop can have many bookmarks to the same uri, though the server would need to be able to determine the folder to display based on some other info such as the string in the <title /> tag (saved in the bookmark)

I did have a go at writing my first perl script to output ls -a but couldn't work out how to pass an arbitrary.directory to the function - I just got -1 as the output! Though, I did find this extensive article.

In short, the browser provides an always ready (always running!), ready made UI - so why not use it if possible?

Feature request: "open-with"
Something that's lacking in maemo is the ability to arbitrarily open files with a given programme. This could be exteneded to set different default type-to-programme associations from the in built ones. It would also be able to handle extension-less files.
- Using the browser paradigm above: in hover mode, there could be a few options akin to a right-click menu.

As for icons, might it be an idea to use a modified version of the icon form programme a given file is expected to open with e.g htm/html files might have a mini globe (like the "Web" icon) or if mp3 files are supposed to open with, say, KMplayer - they'd get a mini KMplayer icon. Easy for users to anticipate what'll happen. If you were feeling really bored I'm sure it'd be possible to write/include some functionality that converted the programme icon into a file icon!?!

... just a few thoughts...

I think that's it

Credits for the idea go to electroaudio...

Maybe, but it wouldn't be a desktop widget and I suppose it would use more memory for the same purpose. Besides, I hardly understand a word you say here. I know what these things are, but I am not able to do this.

Yes

There is no hover mode (?)

Wont happen

I decided to do this icon thing like I planned at the beginning (if a different solution comes around, this could be changed). I'll use some awoken icons.
Alphabetical sort,icons,menu, tool bar, name, deb... this could take some time. Now last question. Update this page at progress or update when ready?

nice it is working! but it does not look like "My computer" as on my desktop(i thought it would be some thing like that)
scrolling for long time(by holding up or down button) brings the setting for the desktop

BTW "Default folder is /home/user not yet configurable" is the worst thing

Using Oculo "web" content may be rendered directly on desktop. Still, I'm not sure, if it's "clickable", or only window showing things.

I like your route better than the browser idea, i have tried to do some stuff with the browser before but didnt like it, its always too slow and cumbersome to do stuff like that in a webpage.

Please update whenever you think it has been some progress

Updated first page

It starts to look good

Some comments
My idea with the text was to put it inside the scrollable area However this works too so...
One thing i see is that when the widget is smaller than the list then a scroll sideways list is shown. wouldnt it be better with only vertical scroll and adapt the number of rows to the width?

Yes, this will be changed