Finger Friendly File Explorer-Just An Idea

[uniqueboy]

With all the touch roms and in particular Tene's beautiful software, and a new calendar app on it's way, I got thinking that a finger friendly file explorer would be a great enhancement to our devices. I imagine that when launched it would come up with a list of your favourite file locations in a user defined scrollable list. For example "my documents" or "all music files" etc. If you select "all video files" it would then show them, when a video is selected it would ask what software you wanted to open it with and if it should do the same every time for that item.
I have done a few really bad diagrams and have more ideas, I just thought it would be nice to collect other peoples thoughts and hopefully inspire a developer. I am not suggesting a replacement for the built in file explorer or something with all the functions of resco, just something that looks good, like the upcoming calendar app, that allows you to get where you want to go easily and perform a defined action when you are there.
I hope that made a bit of sense, apologies if not.

[uniqueboy]

Must be a really dumb idea.

[paalkr]

Must be a really dumb idea.

Hi!

Not at all, I liked the idea! Maybe some graphic artists around here could make a mockup?

Regards,
PK

[maevro]

Must be a really dumb idea.

Because you are impatient and no one jumped on your thread? Relax and give it time.

[Rudegar]

as finger friendly file exlores go then gsfinder+ is pretty easy to havigate and copy/cut/paste files around with

not that that will ever make be stop using totalcommander :P

[oaldawe]

i like that idea

[shaileshashar]

if no one takes it up, i'll definately give it a shot - provided i get the time to do it.
i'll dig up this thread after couple of weeks and check if anybody has taken it up.

[truprettyboi]

Good Idea:D

[AJerman]

I'm starting to play around with development stuff right now, and I'll probably work on all kinds of new finger friendly apps. Right now I'm creating an extremely simple picture preview program that has finger functionality like the iPhone picture viewer. Obviously we can't do the multitouch stuff, but swiping one way or another goes forward or back through the pictures in that folder, and sliding your finger up and down zooms in or out. That's it, no other fancy stuff that the other picture viewers have. I just want this to be used to view photos on my phone, not for editing or anything. I don't know if anything like that is around, I've never seen it, and I wanted something to mess around with, so I gave it a try. I've only been working on it for half a day so far, but it's almost finished. Any interest in that? I might make a thread for it.

Anyway, if all goes well I'll definitely be interested in taking on a few other projects to help make our devices more finger friendly.

[snotboy32]

Sounds real Good, Goodluck with it! :)

[boto]

its a great ideia,

only need to be a clean and light app, or no one will use it....

i hate need to use total commander with my fingers, thanks god my fingers are realy small

[uniqueboy]

I am so pleased there is some interest in the idea, every time I use PCM I imagine it with files instead of contacts and I think how cool it would be to have a set of filters for my files, it would be the ultimate launcher really. I hope someone can pick up the idea and run with it. I just have millions of ideas and no way to make them reality. Ahh, a rose from a dream.

[jonnala]

it sounds great.

[jackbnymbl]

Interestingly, this could possibly be the most useful of the finger friendly apps if it's done because the current file explorer may be the least finger friendly builtin app(with the possible exception of a web browser, but I think opera's already working on that), but no one's attempted it yet