Two pane file manager

Foxy foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Sun Apr 16 02:10:39 CEST 2006


Joel Gomberg wrote:
> Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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 :-)
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> I like Gnome Commander, which is now being actively developed again:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/
>
> --
> Joel
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emelfm2 is another nice GTK file manager with two panes: 
http://www.emelfm2.net/




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