Rip Drag: Eliminate Your GUI File Manager Again!

[@BrodieRobertson]

A few people noticed the ancient kernel in this video, I recorded this 6 months ago and just forgot to upload it in the mean time

[@essix322]

i thought you rollback or something ...

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@essix322 That would be a serious problem if I had to rollback this much

[@shatterstone3045]

I mean, your date in your wibar said it was the 4th January, so that also gave it away, but I guess most people wouldn't look at that.

[@Mankepanke]

Nerds looking at kernel release numbers instead of literal dates to tell the time. 🤓

[@shatterstone3045]

@@Mankepanke Yeah haha. Can admit that I first saw the kernel, and I double checked the date after that.

[@darukutsu]

Title: Eliminate your gui file manager. Brodie: **opens gui file manager**

[@FengLengshun]

I love how Brodie can go from the most mainstream Linux topics like Red Hat into the most obscure niche programs like this. Because as a GUI users who only use terminal for specific things, this is so damn weird.

[@neb_setabed]

Super cool! The -t -k option seems like it would be useful just to create a temp space for uploading files later, if you're searching around a bunch of different folders for specific files

[@vilijanac]

Similar here, I like some GUI apps not coming for Mint for example, as it provides its own solution. Instead of fiddling with scripts, I compiled and installed Linux Wifi Hotspot project from Git Hub. It is an excellent GUI program.

[@HussainAlkumaish]

I rarely ever use drag-drop. But this program will certainly be useful

[@edmund3504]

it seems to me "rip" is usually a stand-in for "rust improved" but i could be totally wrong about that

[@BrodieRobertson]

I hadn't seen that nomenclature before, that may be the case

[@voidmind]

Having an -a option to group all files together is not optimal. That window pop-up with the file names listed should simply have a Drag All label always at the top. dragging individual file names would still work to drag only one file. You could use it at your convenience without having to think about running the command with or without -a

[@anon_y_mousse]

This is the kind of development that happens when people are scared of certain programming languages and decide to rewrite it in a fad language as quick as possible just to get away from the original language. No thought for what it does, how or why, just straight up translate and go. Hopefully they'll at least maintain it and rework it as they go, but we'll see.

[@dreamcat4]

thank you i was indeed completely unaware of this useful program... but no longer! added to my system and working fabulously. my gratitude

[@Drazil100]

One use I have for dragon drag and drop is that when I take screenshots I have a shortcut I can use to pop up the last screenshot I took to drag into discord. I don't need to navigate to the file and find it I can just access it immediately. Cli file managers aren't the only use case. Heck I use it from just a bash prompt if I am already in the terminal and can get to the folder quicker there than in my gui file manager. (tab complete rules)

[@Poldovico]

Could also be good to interact with the user in simple scripted operations. Either pop up a draggable file for the user when you output, or ask for an input file to be dragged in.

[@anon_y_mousse]

Interesting use case. For me all of my screenshots go to the ~/Pictures folder so I can just click the shortcut on the left and since I view by modified in descending order it'll be at the top. Since they get the current date and time by default it's also easy to pick the right one if I've left any in that folder recently, but I typically rename them to something relevant to what they're a screenshot of, if I keep them anyway.

[@UKprl]

Couple of alternatives to pop open a folder at the current location from the terminal. nemo . & -or- open . & The second one works because (via the Alternatives system) it is an alias for xdg-open. so should select your default file manager associated with folders. Would be a better analogue if there was an option to open this view with a spatial file manager paradigm (minimal window representing folder object and file objects rather than being a file browser with menus, toolbars and sidebars). Depending on your Terminal program, you can probably assign a keyboard shortcut to this action? Dragging from a file manager such as Nemo to a terminal already copies the file or folder path and pastes it as a string. To be clear, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with these separate utilities, but daily driving a WM one can be unaware that somewhat similar functionality is already built into a DE though not readily discover-able.

[@osbert]

open . 🧑‍🍳💋🤌

[@UKprl]

@@osbert Fair enough! I did already specify *open .* and someone before me had posted *dolphin .* Now true in this case you don't need to background (&) but in most cases when starting a GUI from a terminal you do want to use & so that you get your prompt back for further input, while being able to manage these processes with *jobs* and *fg*

[@jiasheanleong7918]

I used to do nemo . before I discovered dragon (and now ripdrag) Here's why I use tools like this: normally, you would only want to drag certain files nemo . & opens everything you still have to search for the files also, gui file manager takes 1-2 seconds to load on my system whereas tools like dragon or ripdrag doesn't

[@anon_y_mousse]

I don't think I've ever *needed* drag and drop functionality in all my years using a computer. I've only used it a few times and just to see that it worked and then promptly went back to the terminal and never did it again for years. The few GUI programs I used on a regular basis, I don't have a problem navigating to files from them or just calling them from the terminal and pushing them to the background. One of those very few GUI programs I use that I regularly need to give file input to is Viewnior and often it's easier to give it a file list from the terminal using file patterns. However, I'm fully willing to admit that I'm weird and definitely not the norm.

[@Thanatos2996]

6:52 your wm or compositor looks like DWM or some spinoff of DWM. If that’s the case, DWM spawns windows that request specific fixed geometry as floating, and tiles everything else, so that’s expected default behavior. You could make a rule for ripdrag to always float to avoid the issue if you wanted.

[@Zeioth]

A modern rust version of dragon-drop, cool!

[@formbi]

which probably means it has a thousand of one-liner dependencies

[@Beryesa.]

That thumbnail is perfect 😂

[@insu_na]

Tear Your GUI Into Pieces, This Is Your Last Resort

[@anon_y_mousse]

This deserves more upvotes.

[@insu_na]

@@anon_y_mousse It really doesn't 😂My jokes are bad and they should feel bad

[@kdcadet]

Could alsoebe useful for someone with a mostly gui workflow but needs to go into the terminal on occasion.

[@xard64]

I like to search files from terminal with find command and if that can be used in combination with with Rip Drag that would open a lot of possibilities to chain up the find results with graphical applications.

[@CausticAscarite]

oh wow now I can make a tiny simple list of memes that will always be on top, this way my memes will always be on point and in time

[@oniondesu9633]

can see it being useful as a dmenu script that lets you quickly access a directory of your choice so oyou can drag files into a browser, but i'd never remember to use it lol

[@mskiptr]

I'm a happy dragon-drop user, so if I ever find it not enough (or want GTK4) I'll try this tool too

[@Grummfy]

Nice element. I see an usage when I do some testing on application that need to uoload/drop files in them, I can select a list of element inside my big folder of test file to make repetitive test.

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

will switch from dragon to ripdrag, thank you :)

[@guss77]

An interesting tool. Currently, if I want to drag something out of my terminal, I 'ls' it, then hold ALT and drag the file name out of the Konsole window to wherever I want.😊

[@anon_y_mousse]

Plus one from a fellow Konsole user, though I've never had the need to drag and drop anything.

[@elcugo]

This may be useful as a debugging tool, but otherwise completely obsolete. Konsole has a "open in file manager" action which you can map to any key of your choice. If not, as others pointed out, "xdg-open ." just do the same.

[@brylozketrzyn]

I am so used to terminals I can have only Xterm or Powershell windows opened for whole day

[@simpleprogrammingcodes]

I think the thunar command does more or less the same thing, but is easier to use (less options).

[@malcolmhutchison]

I will certainly be using one. I tend to work at the command line but launch a GUI file manager to drag and drop file when uploading using a web browser - I have been meanIng to look for something that I could pass the file list to so it only showed only those files rather then the contents of the whole directory. Thanks.

[@istasi5201]

dolphin .

[@abstractapproach634]

Jokes on you, my gui file manager is broken anyway!

[@tankermottind]

I'm much interested in the reverse, dragging a text file from the GUI (Krusader in my case) file manager into vim.

[@senorbinario2855]

Thank you! Very useful

[@tambuchalinux]

Those apps are blasphemous! Anyone wanting to work in the terminal that much should not be cheating with dragon drop apps. Use that keyboard, and leave the mouse for gui apps! 😡 ( I'm just playing ) But seriously those are interesting tools, even though I'll probably never use them.

[@9SMTM6]

The name isn't great, but it's probably a play not only on the fact that its a "modern" rust replacement aka ripgrep (tho evidently it isn't pure rust if it's GTK4, and as you probably meant rip drag probably isn't considerable faster), but also RIP or rest-in-peace. Still not a great name, but if you combine them I find it somewhat more understandable how someone could've justified that choice.

[@setaindustries]

But couldn't you just call a GUI file manager from the terminal and drag from there? Like if I did "nautilus ." that would achieve the same effect, wouldn't it?

[@BrodieRobertson]

But we need to do things the hard way

[@alexstone691]

I legit thought the tool drag died and the video is about that, name is truly unfortunate

[@opalmay]

This needs to be a tui with mouse support and integrate with your terminal emulator

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I wonder if the dragon drag and ripdrag developers are going to do a name handoff

[@anon_y_mousse]

Why would you want them to do that?

[@citywitt3202]

Dude will that work over ssh? Should have called it rip-rsync

[@vaisakh_km]

Finanlly.. he made a video about ripdrag...

[@fuseteam]

but does it work over ssh xd

[@Aeduo]

I remember all the hype around drag and drop in the 90s but it never ended up being as useful as it seemed to be advertised as. Windows kinda does it ok in that there seem to be a better concept of global data handlers and embedding of objects, but plenty of same-type drag and drops just don't work as well in Linux as one would hope, especially among multimedia editing/creation applications where everything is just it's own incompatible formats and ecosystem that doesn't cooperate. It's a shame, but it's not much better in windows, but on windows you have large suites of creative software that do work together, even if just in their own ecosystem.

[@ciubciubpl]

why is your kernel so old ?

[@FakeMichau]

also January and awesomewm (but Brodie moved to hyprland quite some time ago)

[@luizzeroxis]

This is depressing.

[@elmariachi5133]

Using a computer wtithout dragging is possible but futile.

[@FakeMichau]

Over half a year old video?

[@BrodieRobertson]

I somehow didn't find a time to upload it

[@setoman1]

This does the same thing as a GUI file manager. Wtf is the point? 😂

[@laughingvampire7555]

wow Linux copying some of the apps from Windows/MacOS world like dropover that have been around for years, I hope they improve the UI for the gnome normies, because that shit is horrible.

[@Mariuspersem]

isn't it better to just have a script to copy a specific file to the clipboard? the less you have to use the mouse, the better

[@BrodieRobertson]

Some people like the mouse

[@applecastaway4256]

2nd

[@erdanxiloscient3666]

1st?

[@iAmTheWagon]

11th

[@Wampa842]

Barely a minute in and I'm already opening LFRC. *edit* LF integration was trickier than I thought...

[@deesnutz42069]

tear my gui into pieces, this is my last tree sort

[@darukutsu]

xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser

[@jort93z]

They should just call it rdrag or ridr. ripdrag is not very catchy. Looks like a decent program tho. Not really a proper replacement, but goot to have on the system. Sometimes i have a terminal open in one window, and discord or a browser in another. That way i don't need to open my gui file manager.