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File Browser? Who needs it?File Browser? Who needs it?Posted Aug 3, 2012 21:01 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: File Browser? Who needs it? by endecotp Parent article: McCann: Cross Cut [the future of Nautilus]
graphical file managers are all cumbersome, slow, and irritating to use.
Commandline is fast and you have proper amount of control.
However sometimes you want to have visual representation of the files and then GUIs are nice. And other people have no issue with using them and are quite adept.
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File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 4, 2012 13:15 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite. The ideal would be to have both a command-line and a file browser. KDE's Konqueror gave us that in days of yore, and Dolphin still can. Midnight Commander gave us the same. These days I tend to use Sunrise Commander for the same reason, though I can see why it wouldn't appeal to a non-Emacs user.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 4, 2012 19:33 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Yup. I still miss the power of FAR Manager from Windows. It has both rich command line support and file navigation.
File Browser? Who needs it? Posted Aug 5, 2012 0:20 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
I keep ranger (OS X-like file browser on the terminal), vidir (handy file renaming tool), and vifm (another two-pane file manager) handy, but mostly zsh's magic gives me everything I need (zmv, smart tab completion for paths (e.g., ~/c/o/hask<Tab> -> ~/code/other/lang-haskell being a key one)).
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