ForkLift 1.6 (beta) discussion thread

[schlaefer]

I really think this is needed for simple users. If you are orienting Forklift as a simple-to-use FTP for the EveryPerson, then it needs to make intuitive sense. Dual pane = synced tabs. If you are wanting Forklift to be a Total Commander for Mac / Power-user FTP program, then I can see your point. I can see power users who use an FTP a lot would want independent tabs, that is why I would suggest it as an option, not the only way.

-David

My thoughts exactly. If e.g. four tabs are open in each pane the mental power to hold two of the eight together as synched is much more demanding now then it was in the previous implementation.

That said, I appreciate the better synced tab behaviour in the 1.6b2.

[brh]

The standard Apple shortcut for this is Cmd-Y, with the Spacebar being an alternate. I use the Spacebar method myself as well.

I think I may have known this at one time, and then completely forgotten... Thanks for the tip!

[Ian]

Hm, it appears the SFTP bug not preserving dates is broken again!?

[Krzysztof M.]

Hello,
Version 1.6b2 (4325) seems to be very promising, but would be nice to be able to change the background color for highlighting the line. Now it is transparent with little thin line around, so it is not so well readable!

[natebeaty]

I just got an idea...
At the moment I will keep it for myself, but I'm sure it would satisfy everybody and even more

waiting with bated breath. but will it satisfy the total commandos?!

[Mudi]

Well, I have implemented "workspaces"...then I deleted it
They were sitting on the sidebar as favorites and had their own panes/tabs (like another window). It sounds cool and really powerful......I felt that it would render ForkLift too complex.

Let me hear your opinion

[natebeaty]

Well, I have implemented "workspaces"...then I deleted it
They were sitting on the sidebar as favorites and had their own panes/tabs (like another window). It sounds cool and really powerful......I felt that it would render ForkLift too complex.

Let me hear your opinion

tough to say without trying it out. this is a tough UI problem for sure, and i agree that sounds like an unnecessary extra layer of complexity.

the simplest solution (at least for the user, not so much for the coding side) i can think of is a preference such as [] Use Paired Tabs (not sure of the wording). it would default to how it behaves now, but you could turn on the old behavior in preferences.

as far as coding, i don't even want to know how complex that would be, haha. but this would satisfy both camps i imagine. the total commandos just want multi-queue-concurrent-keyboard-batch-rename-file-selection-with-move, so they probably don't care so much.

[csaba]

Hello, fellow beta testers!

There's a new version of the beta out, get it from our blog post.

Enjoy

[gcoghill]

View >> Show View Options >> Alternating background

Ahh, I was looking for it in the prefs -- thanks!

[gcoghill]

New beta looking good so far. Dragging tabs seems to be working flawlessly now. Seems snappy as well

Question: on the tabs, I find that if I click on a favorite for another domain on my host (an "addon" domain), the tab reads as the favorite from the original connection.

In other words, clicking on my "blog" favorite takes me to my downloads folder and the WordPress plugins folder on my host; if I open a new tab and click on "blog 2", the new tab still reads as "blog", making it impossible to determine which is which visually.

I'm still not a fan of the new tab system, but honestly I haven't used since trying the last beta for 30 minutes (too buggy to actually use). This version seems stable enough to start using it more fully.