I use it especially when moving files around in my NAS and it is awesome.

For GUI file managers, I have to say you can't get better than Dolphin. It has an integrated shell for the current directory, and you can split the view. It can also directly open ssh and SFTP URLs. For local things the combination of Dolphin and it's shell is unbeatable.

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unmole 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

> and you can split the view

You could do the same with Nautilus. But in their infinite wisdom GNOME developers decided to remove that ability.

	▲	tomrod 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		The stories about GNOME dev make me sad. Not quite as bad as resume-driven development changes to core tech products, but not too far off either. I like things that work. Somehow that makes me a luddite!

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homebrewer 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm partial to pcmanfm-qt, which also supports splits, and has the best "search in current directory" I've seen anywhere. You open a directory, start typing, and it filters out matching files fzf-style.

It doesn't simply select them like some other file managers do, it searches within the name and not just the prefix (again, like some other file managers), you don't have to press anything beforehand. When you get used to it, it's hard to go without it.

https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt

For those preferring lightweight environments, it has far fewer dependencies than dolphin.

	▲	bigwheels 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Wish there was a screenshot of the final product in this repo! QT apps are non-trivial to build if you don't already have the environment setup. BTW, do you know if it can build for macOS, or is that a non-starter?

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graemep 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Konqueror (the old KDE file manager) lets you do multiple splits, horizontal as well as vertical, and preview files in the file manager.

Very nice, but no longer as well maintained.

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bmn__ 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> you can't get better than Dolphin

Try <https://krusader.org>. Same KDE underpinnings, but orthodox interface.

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rob74 5 days ago | parent [-]

I used Krusader for years, then (after installing Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu) I discovered Double Commander (https://github.com/doublecmd/doublecmd), which is also free software, but more cross-platform (and developed using Free Pascal/Lazarus, which makes it old-fashioned in even more ways - it even used to be hosted on SourceForge, but it looks like they moved to GitHub now).

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aidenn0 5 days ago | parent [-]

I just tried it now. Any way to get it to not show all of my docker volumes as disk drives above the panes? There's hardly any room for a file-manager below that.

	▲	rob74 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I noticed that too, but I have fewer docker volumes, so it didn't bother me as much. As far as I can see, you can only disable the "drive buttons" completely under Configuration/Options/Layout/Show drive buttons". If you should need it, there is also a "drives list button" which shows a menu containing all available "drives".

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professoretc 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I miss TkDesk, which I discovered many years ago when I was first trying Linux, partly because it supports unlimited splits, not just two. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, when navigating to a subdirectory the default was just to open it in a new split. You ended up with splits containing the full path from wherever you started to your eventual subdirectory (you could scroll the view of splits horizontally once there got to be too many).

https://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/

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overfeed 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It can also directly open ssh and SFTP URLs.

I wish mc could browse remote URLs, and I'm tempted to author an mc clone in Go to address this particular pain-point. Maybe some day handcrafting bespoke rsync/rclone commands will frustrate me enough to motivate me.

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baumschubser 6 days ago | parent [-]

In the Left/Right menu in mc, you can select FTP, SFTP and SSH URLs to browse. Is this not what you mean?

	▲	1718627440 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And for other protocols like WebDAV you can mount them and then traverse with mc.
	▲	overfeed 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is what I mean. Glad to hear mc supports this already!

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akagusu 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not only that, but if you want to move around a large number of files, Dolphin is the only that get you covered without crashes or slowing down