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Files, Folders, and SearchFiles, Folders, and SearchPosted Oct 26, 2010 7:57 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Files, Folders, and Search by drag Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
"Anyways; GUI file managers are all piles of crap anyways. I rather use Nautilus compared to Finder or Explorer, but all three of them a pretty irritating to use. Especially when using Windows I always long for a nice Unix shell and on Windows machines I use a lot cygwin is universally installed. There just has to be a better way."
I miss FAR (http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en) on Linux, it's _the_ best file manager in existence. Everything else seems clunky in comparison, including the 'most advanced' GUI managers like Dolphin in KDE.
Try it on Windows. Though it does have a steep learning curve, kinda like emacs/vim.
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Files, Folders, and Search Posted Oct 26, 2010 10:34 UTC (Tue) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463) [Link]
Files, Folders, and Search Posted Oct 26, 2010 11:27 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
It only _looks_ like, unfortunately. It's nowhere close in functionality and ease of use.
There's a project to resurrect MC: http://www.midnight-commander.org/ - it _might_ one day produce FAR's rival. But it's still not comparable, so far.
Files, Folders, and Search Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:20 UTC (Tue) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]
It's a gui, but have you tried Kommander?
Files, Folders, and Search Posted Oct 26, 2010 17:11 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Do you mean 'Krusader'?
I think, I've tried all the two-panel managers in Linux. http://freshmeat.net/projects/XNorthernCaptain/ is most close to FAR in 'spirit' but its functionality is severely lacking.
It's certainly possible to live in Linux without file managers, but sometimes it's almost painful to write series of commands which can be done in a few keypresses in a good file manager. Does not happen that often, so it's not a deal-breaker.
I guess, users of vim/emacs feel the same when they are forced to use less powerful editors.
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