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Originally Posted by diba
Friends,
I had not the time to go deeper in knc1's proposal.
But I think I have to express my point more clearly, even if knc1 got it in his last post exactly.
What I am looking for is a file explorer which could be used ON the Kindle itself, independent from a Computer or ssh. If I have these around, there would be no need for the file explorer.
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diba
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Of course, the first thing to learn is if mc will meet your requirements.
Best that you install a copy of mc on whatever non-Kindle machine you have and give it a try (maybe for a few days - it has a lot of features).
But for the readers here not well versed in the internals of the "mc type" applications...
The lack of a keyboard on the K5 as the input device is obvious.
But the display - ah, the display (K5 or any e-ink device) - that is what gets interesting.
To make mc use the Kindle display would require an e-ink driver for ncurses.
But once an e-ink driver for ncurses existed (perhaps as an artifact of this project), then the entire world full of "ncurses output" applications is opened up to the Kindle and other e-ink devices.
There are thousands of applications that would work on a e-ink display system - if the ncurses driver existed.
But first things first - let us see if mc meets the O.P.'s requirements.
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If not, then we can re-start this thread, only next looking for something qt or qt-embedded based (rather than ncurses based).
Edit 1:
I haven't built mc for a long time - it might well build for a qt interface - I will check into that while the O.P. does the usability review.
Edit 2:
Does not build with qt and it was "impoved" by removing the Gnome interface.
Default build uses Slang, but it will build against "ncurses > 4.1"
Q: Does that include ncurses 5.9? A: Will just have to try it.
Ref:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
Hmm... I wonder if tic is powerful enough to handle an e-ink display and touch screen input without any coding changes? Another "just have to try it" thing.