Two pane file manager

[Stefan Stuhr]

lør, 15 04 2006 kl. 13:38 +0200, skrev Mateusz Łoskot:
> Hi,
> 
> As I see, both GNOME with Nautilus and Xfce with Thunar
> face the Windows Explorer approach - single pane + tree (or shortcuts).
> There were even a long discussion on the Nautilus mailing list about
> which file manager layout is more usable but Nautilus developers stated
> Windows Explorer-like is FM is best.
> 
> I'd say, I don't agree and I know more people that prefer to use Total
> Commander (or Midnight Commander on Unix) than Windows Explorer.
> Simply, every keyboard fun prefer two panes because it saves him from
> clicking too much.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised why there is no well working clone of Midnight/Total
> Commander on Linux. I always thought Linux users prefer using keyboard
> than mouse :-)
> 
> I'd just ask if there is any interest of having
> two pane based file manager like the Total Commander for Windows?
> May be Thunar could be provide two configurable layouts with common
> engine inside?
> I propose it to Nautilus DevTeam but it didn't meet a big interest.
> 
> What's an opinion of XFCE/Thunar developers and users regarding two pane
> file manager?

You could try Filer:
http://blog.perldude.de/projects/filer
Or maybe Tux Commander:
http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/
Both of the above uses the GTK2 toolkit.

Also, XFE, based on the FOX toolkit, is a lot like Windows Explorer, but
also supports two pane mode:
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

> Cheers
> - --
> Mateusz Łoskot

Stefan