I’ve used a ton of different linux distributions from Gentoo and Arch to Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and plenty more. On most of these distros you can expect a GUI file manager program. For my Arch Linux setup I’m currently using thunar but it leaves a bit to be desired. I hope one day I’ll find the time to sit down and write my own file manager.
What are the options?
1. Dolphin
Dolphin is KDE’s file manager that lets you navigate and browse the contents of your hard drives, USB sticks, SD cards, and more. Creating, moving, or deleting files and folders is simple and fast.
2. Nautilus
Nautilus supports all the basic functions of a file manager and more. It can search and manage your files and folders, both locally and on a network, read and write data to and from removable media, run scripts, and launch apps.
3. Thunar
Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options by default. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and folder load time.
4. Konqueror
Konqueror is KDE’s Webbrowser and swiss-army-knife for any kind of file-management and file previewing.
?. And many more options I won’t bother exploring…
What might be cool
- Share files with others easily
- Terminal support
- Optional Split Panes
- Search
- Indexing
- ’Everything is a file’/view browser tabs as files/view network connections as files/etc
- Archive support (view, extract, compress, archive, etc)
- Git support
- Duplicates detection
- Metadata cleaner/editor
- Image previews
- Tags
- Themes & Plugins
- Custom background colors/images for specific directories
- Visualize
- Web archiving (aka clone SingleFile plugin)
- Directory specific notes
- VCS?
- Annotate , describe, translate, transcribe, etc via local models?
- Tree view/Radial tree view/Links graph view/Tags graph view?
- Git host integration
- Workspaces (organize files/directories from different contexts into their own dedicated space)
- RSS/atom feeds
- System info/monitoring
- Support Age
- Bookmark manager
- ImageMagik?
- Cheatsheets
- Cloc - https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc?
- Code snippets?
- ffmpeg?
- https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3 ?
- Image optimization - https://apps.gnome.org/Curtail/ ?
- Download manager - https://aria2.github.io/ ?
- https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ?
- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ?
- https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ?
- Hashing - https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 ?
- Bulk file operations such as renaming
- Build in IPFS support?
- Build in Filecoin support ?
- Clipboard manager
- Build in Proton drive support ?
- Build in Google Drive support ?
- Build in image sharing/upload support ?
Licensing?
- apps and binaries GPLv3
- libs and components MIT
- docs CC0-1.0