Nowadays I'm slowly switching from Emacs to Kate (this is a bit hard and has lead me to become a small KDE contributor to improve Kate and the underlying KTextEditor ^^).Ģ panes (both heavily tabbed so more like 10-15 of them representing various projects/activitives, tabbing for some reason works better mentally than bunch of explorer windows) is great concept, you always move from A to B if organizing/copying/moving. It made me love a file manager, which is not something that I would have thought possible a few years back, or the years before that. It even works transparently with remote mount over ftps thanks to KIO. And for things that are better done using a shell, you have a terminal at your fingertips anytime anywhere with all your settings from Konsole (the actual terminal app) thanks to the fantastic KParts framework. Dolphin is probably one of my favorite piece of software today. Switching from managing files in the terminal to using Dolphin has been an amazing experience. It was a bit of a pain at the beginning, so my first move was to configure everything so that my usual key bindings worked again, but I quickly found that I could be as efficient and at ease as I was before using KDE Apps as they were intended to be used (I even switched from doing my emails in Emacs to using a graphical email client!).
So I read a bit, compared the two, and decided to give a try to KDE. My environment consisted in Openbox as a window manager, rxvt-unicode as a terminal with Bash as a shell, and then mostly Emacs and Firefox (considering only graphical programs).Ī few years ago, maybe 2 or 3 I'm not sure, I decided to try to experience Linux the way "muggles" do, because I was always telling people to use it but I actually never properly used what they would if they followed my advice, i.e., Gnome or KDE. Once on Linux, I didn't even bother to install a file manager at all, I just kept using the terminal. At this time on Mac OS X I was barely using the Finder at all, I spent all my time in the Terminal and managed my files from there. I switched from Mac OS X to Linux (Debian) a bit more than 15 years ago. Hopefully the file selection dialogue then isn't totally unrelated from a UI point of view. a "file system interface", probably spatial and a more abstracted powerful file manager could and should co-exist. Personally, I'd even make the argument that they've become worse at times and that they're not even in the same niche, i.e. I personally wouldn't consider the Win 11 explorer to be that more usable than winfile.exe, but people have different thresholds. Is it because the system apps have gotten better? Maaaybe. Is it because file usage in general has declined? Generally mabye, but not in that target demographic. I rarely see that these days, both from regular users and my fellow software developers. Next to image viewers probably one of the most common third party tools. There was a pretty huge market of shareware (or open source on linux) for this. Quite often one of the commanders, but I've seen other preferences. Back in the days, pretty much any "power user" had their own favorite replacement for the built-in stop gap solution. I know this is not the point of the discussion, but caught my interest.It's interesting to see the "decline" of secondary file managers on Windows and probably Linux systems, too. I was an Amiga and ST and PC user but I thought I recall having 2 pane file management on the PC first. What I recall from the Amiga was Directory Opus, and that was like 1990. There have been Two Panel Filemanagers way BEFORE Norton CommanderĬurious what they were, because xtgold or Xtreepro which is for the PC, not Amiga had its first release in 1985. Sorry to be the one that have to tell you that but you are WRONG. Norton Commander passed away a long time ago, but some of its imitators are still around and doing well. Karlchen wrote:And let us face it: Total Commander itself, Speed Commander, Free Commander, Krusader, Gnome Commander and basically all file managers that present two file panels side by side are based on the ancient Norton Commander user interface and have adopted, preserved and often improved a lot of ideas and features of Norton Commander.
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