4.7pre4

[y199mp1505 at gmail.com]

Hello Russian Team,

Please make sure you call your init/config files in a different way
from 4.6.1 or put them in a different directory.

Right now your are modifying 'ini' without considering that users
may want to leave the old 4.6.1 install intact.

Further, it seems to me that you are playing around with effects
(skins) and wasting time. You have no chance in hell to get
agreement from the (still) official maintainers and from the distros
maintainers on such visual aspects. Forget it.

You want to innovate? Here are two suggestions:

- A set of keybindings in the CUA tradition. Why is F8 used
   rather than Delete? If the reason is the (displayed) command
   line, the solution is that keypresses only reach the command
   line *after* a switch key (assume F8) is pressed. So Delete does
   delete and if you want to type on the command line you press the
   switch key first. This would also help with Backspace and others.

- Tree view. I do not know what the original authors of mc's tree
   view were thinking but that was mid-90s. Currently, the tree view
   is fairly standardized. You need a command to expand the tree one
   level (e.g. Right) or to expand it all levels (e.g. *) and to
   collapse it (e.g. Left). And yes, first admit unreservedly that
   the tree view is not just useful, it is indispensable.


Regards


frank