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What's your favorite file explorer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on gnome using the default file explorer (nautilus) and it's fine, but I wish there were more ways to display files, I like MacOS style. What's your favorite?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Thunar, but it's really buggy. I keep telling myself I should find some free time to contribute some patches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What bugs? (I didn't encounter any. I use Thunar version 1.8.14)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Display bugs: whenever something changes in the underlying file system, the changes are not always reflected. Backend bugs: deleting files causes CPU usage to soar up for whatever reason. Long standing bug, might be related to GVFS, but still not really sure. I also got a few crashes but can't remember exactly.

Compared to KDE Dolphin it also lacks some much needed features, such as the dialog window when copying files with filename conflict which could display more information (and a thumbnail).

I contributed some patches in the past, and the maintainer is a really cool person. Just need to find time to contribute more...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks for your contributions in the past and for considering contributing in the future. It'S perfectly understandanble that you (like everybody) have limited time.

I'm not sure about the bugs you mentioned. I haven't had a Thunar bug for a while. But I remember vaguely now that some large file operations aborted silently before being completed. When I delete several hundreds of files on an USB stick it takes forever but I thought this is due to the filesystem (freeing up every single cluster) and not specific to Thunar, but I may be wrong on this.