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<h2>FAQ</h2>
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<li><b>Why can't 4Pane be like other file managers and have icon-view/one-pane options?</b>
There are already plenty of file managers that do that. 4Pane is for people (like me) who want the increased information
that a list-view provides, and the ease of navigation that you get with a separate directory pane.</li><br>
<li><b>OK, but I can't see all that information: with four panes there isn't enough screen width.</b><br>
Well, there <i>is</i> a scrollbar... Anyway:
<ul><li>You can shrink other panes by dragging their vertical borders, giving more room to the file-view.</li>
<li>You don't have to display all of the <a href="FileviewCols.htm">file-view columns</a>, only the ones that you're interested in.</li>
<li>You can use <i>View > Unsplit Panes</i> so that only one pair of panes is displayed.</li>
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<li><b>Why doesn't 4Pane look up the mime-type of each file it displays?</b><br>
Speed. Opening my /usr/bin directory containing several thousand files used to take less than a second in 4Pane, compared with 15 seconds
in Konqueror. Admittedly that was some time ago, and the difference is much less with a more modern computer. Nevertheless, why spend time
and cpu cycles checking when you hardly ever need to know the answers?</li><br>
<li><b>Why isn't 4Pane an ftp client/web browser/dvdrom burner?</b><br>
Because it's a file manager. It tries to do one thing, well. If you want to burn a dvdrom, use a dvdrom burner.</li><br>
<li><b>Why doesn't 4Pane use the orthodox Commander-style shortcuts?</b><br>
Because it doesn't try to be a Commander-style file manager. Apart from standard things like Ctrl-C for Copy, it uses a mixture of PowerDesk and Konqueror shortcuts.
However you can <a href="ConfiguringShortcuts.htm">configure</a> the shortcuts to suit your preferences.</li>
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