On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:11:25 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:14:49AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > I just wish I could get a Linux file manager I liked. > > A Linux file manager? You mean bash? ;-) > Heh, well, that actually *is* my favorite out of all the Linux file managers! > What about midnight commander? The only file > manager I could tolerate back in the old DOS days was Norton > Commander, which MC was modelled after. You might like it. Maybe. I've tried Total Commander on Windows, which is another program modeled after Norton Commander. It's probably the only file manager in the world that's even less to my taste than OSX's Finder. However, I do keep it around because its multiple-file-renaming tool is freaking awesome. What I'd really like to find is something I can at least configure to basically be "XP's Explorer, but less buggy and inefficient". And that's including something like TortoiseGit. So yea, probably a very tall order. Anything based off Nautilus (which seems to count for most of them) are pretty far off the mark from what I'm looking for. They're *usable* and bear a similar resemblance to what I want, but the details of it are all goofy, and whenever that's all I have available I find myself just doing everything from the commandline instead. (Sometimes I figure that must be the same reason so many linux users swear by the CLI for file management - all linux's GUI ones suck!) The best I've found so far is KDE4's Dolphin, but it's still no Explorer rival, has nothing like Tortoise (to my knowledge), it still has some irritating goofiness (ex: the horizontal scrolling in the tree-view panel is every bit as broken-by-design as in Vista's Explorer), and there's some other things, plus I don't like KDE4 :( (And I'd rather not have to pull in the bloat of KDE4 just for a file manager.) To me, a GUI file manager is like a keyboard and a text-editor: I rely on it so much that I need it to be *just right* or else it becomes a major bottleneck instead of a tool. Heck, I don't even like Win7's Explorer, really. Even after I configured/hacked the hell out of it, it still has some irritating Mac-like tendencies. Still beats Dolphin though :/ > DOS was a cartoon caricature of > what a *real* shell can do, by comparison I would tend to agree. ;) Although, at the time, I had came to DOS from Apple 2's "Applesoft BASIC", so I didn't see DOS that way until many years later. > so NC was quite the relief > from the suffering when using DOS. Yea, I can believe that. > Or, failing that, you could write a killer file manager app in D, and > we could take over the world. :-P > Honestly, unless I find something that fits the bill, that's one of the top projects in my pile of "pet projects I want to do if I ever have time for stuff I can't rationalize as being vaguely work-related."
