OT: Any suggestions for good gtk-based file managers?

Jacques Montier jacmonti at club-internet.fr
Mon May 31 10:28:41 CEST 2004


Marv Boyes a écrit :
> Hello, everyone. I realize that this only tangentially related to Xfce, 
> but I've come to trust the judgement of the "regulars" who post here.
> 
> The more I use gtk-based applications, the more I favor them over their 
> Qt/KDE counterparts. They just run better, work better, and move faster 
> in Xfce. My one KDE holdout is Konqueror (in file manager mode)-- I 
> haven't found another file manager with the features I need. My problem 
> is that Konq's begun doing some weird things; segfaulting a lot, and 
> spewing a boatload of error and warning messages into whatever consoles 
> I may happen to have open. I'd like to find a gtk work-alike, if such a 
> thing exists.
> 
> Nautilus isn't an option for me at this time: it has a bad habit of 
> trashing my desktop; while I've read posts related to that very problem 
> in this list, I'm just not savvy enough a user to fix it. xffm is nice 
> when I need to do something in a hurry, but it just doesn't have all the 
> features I need (which is hardly Olivier's fault :) ). If anyone's aware 
> of a gtk-based file manager that's relatively feature-rich, 
> Xfce-friendly, and works a lot like Konqueror (but better), I'd be 
> delighted to learn of it.
> 
> Thanks very much in advance.
> 

Rox-filer is very nice. Try it.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ROX-Filer

-- 
Jacques



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