Hi there Today, I decided to finally switch my default file browser to krusader: https://krusader.org/ For a number of years, I've been using double-commander: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ Mostly, I was quite happy with double-commander, as it had my preferred two-panel approach for managing files (I frequently copy files between various directories around for testing models etc). The two-panel approach was something I came to appreciate back in the DOS days when using the Norton Commander. With Double-commander I could also have an arbitrary number of tabs within a panel. The function buttons at the bottom (rename/copy/view/terminal/etc) were also quite handy when using the mouse. And, very importantly, Double-commander is available for Windows as well. However, remote access via sftp was quite slow (viewing and copying files) and that's when I had to fall back on caja, as it had a much higher throughput. Compared to caja, krusader is much faster when listing remote files. Waiting around for caja to refresh a few thousand files was taking way too long (sometimes up to 30 seconds). That's what gave me the final push to make the switch (on my development machine). Double-commander will still be my go-to tool for Windows machines. Anyway, what is your preferred file browser? Cheers, Peter
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Anyway, what is your preferred file browser?
Dolphin. Dolphin supports FISH (File transfer over SSH), so by clicking "network" and then the address bar, and typing "fish://<ip.address> then username and password, I can browse/manipulate remote files on <ip.address> as if they were local. Thunar. I like how easy it is to add your own items to the right-click menu. My wife was working for a fashion label and was having to deal with photos from the fashion shoots that needed to be resized for both printing and the web catalog. Or have the top or bottom cropped off. So I set up a bunch of menu items that used graphicsmagick to process the images, and she could select a bunch of files, right-click, choose the item that would process them the way she wanted, and it would batch-process the lot and drop the results into a sub-directory named after how the files were processed. So instead of opening each file with a graphics editor, one at a time, cropping or resizing it, and saving it again, she could work by just clicking on the thumbnails. And graphicsmagick would run at about five files per second. It saved hours of work, and the people in her office thought she was fantastic. More on fish: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/sftp-scp-fish-protocols Cheers, Wayne
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