What Linux File Manager project would be interested in adding more features ?
Windows File Explorer is the best in terms of features, most Linux File managers lack basic functionality.
If someone dares to point that on redit they get "Then go use windows" (Linux is not a religion). or it's opensource go do it yourself.
Is there a File Manager project that would like to implement features, there are many projects that allow feature request but don't act on it.
I got many ideas.
18 Comments
mholiv@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 156d
Out of curiosity what mandatory features would you consider missing?
tdTrX@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 156d
Preview Panel, Switch from breadcrum to directry only when clicked on remove that ugly arrow (nemo), View Selector is ugly, .directory file is a hit or miss across file managers File Picker doesn't have a place jump to a directory, FIle Picker no Ctrl Shift N No recent panel
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 156d
Frankly: You come across less as "I am missing these features in many Linux file managers" and more like "I tried the default filemanager of my Linux distro and am angry the UX isn't identical to that of Windows". That's not going to garner you much sympathy. Of the things you listed, I'd only consider a "preview" pane (that I'd rather not have, because of the security implications of having a separate potentially vulnerable parser that may receive less dev attention when issues are found) and maybe a "recent panel" (Not sure what one needs that for, I'd rather my system not track my actions so blatantly easy to find) actual features, and, yeah, quite a few Linux file managers can do something like those, obviously.
marighost@piefed.social · 6 pts · 155d
What file manager are you using? KDE's Dolphin? GNOME's Nautilus? You may want to give us your system details so someone might guide you on how to find these things. Dolphin, from my experience, is highly customizable and you might find some of these in there.
jlsalvador@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 154d
All of these features are in KDE Plasma Dolphin.
Take a look the Dolphin settings and panels to enable these features.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · -3 pts · 155d
I use
grepfor previews, it's very good.cdI think does what you want here.No idea what that does.
Find and
cdin shell history should work.Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 155d
Somehow I expect a "GUI+Mouse is clearly better and thus your suggestions are worthless" response :-P
I wish people realized that there are vastly different possible approaches to different tasks and that one can be a lot less disappointed/stressed/angry by accepting one may have to learn a different paradigm once one has chosen to (semi-)commit to a new piece of tech...
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 155d
I was half joking exactly with that intent. Hopefully OP sees that different is not explicitly bad.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 156d
Having ideas is generally not enough.
Volunteers don't take requests. They take suggestions. They only act on the ones they want to.
If you want something to actually get implemented, offering a monetary reward, hiring a dev to contribute, or contributing yourself, is the best way to go.
I've gotten several features I wanted into software I use, by adding them myself.
jlsalvador@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 156d
The problem is not the lack of ideas, it is the programmers number and tech debt.
You can contribute to Dolphin KDE Plasma File Explorer: https://develop.kde.org/
tdTrX@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 156d
They are actually respectful and work. even on the music tagger less people use.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 155d
I'd love to see COSMIC Files on par with Dolphin, and Dolphin is vastly superior to Windows file explorer in the first place.
org@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 155d
You should make your own file manager. That’s usually why people with lots of ideas do when they want to skip the middle man.
But I agree the default GUI file managers are a bit lackluster. Although the idea of it looking anything like windows makes me nauseous.
luthis@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 155d
File managers often have a bunch of plugins that add extra functionality. You could check those or try write your own for what functions you would like.
Whenever I have to use windows, the file manager is the thing that pisses me off the most. It's utterly terrible to use. No tabs or extra panes. Directories exist in some kind of unspecified limbo, like recycle bin and my documents. Multiple copying is done all at once instead of queueing. Files aren't organised cleanly or clearly. If you want to change config it's hidden in a menu somewhere, you can't just edit the config files directly. Gross.
j5906@feddit.org · 5 pts · 156d
Windows file explorer lacked tabs when dolphin had them for a decade or so and its still not even close to even the top of file managers. Also its terrible slow, unreliable, crashes often and has 4 different UIs baked in.
Do some plugins for Dolphin, I feel like they are neat because a) other devs that want to implement a function now have a blueprint for it b) with downloads/stars metric that these add-on stores provide you get a good idea of what the community actually wants.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 155d
What now, Dolphin too?
I use Thunar. It got context-dependent "custom actions" for the context menu. It got suddenly more crash-y about 2 years ago but got better again a few nonths ago.
Quazatron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
Please, do elaborate.
Freakazoid@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 155d
I mainly use Yazi, Dolphin and sometimes Double Commander inside my GameImages.
I like the workflow of Yazi its so fast and the plugins provide most features that I require. It is terminal based which I really started to like.