What Linux File Manager project would be interested in adding more features ?
Windows File Explorer is the best in terms of features, most Linux File managers lack basic functionality.
If someone dares to point that on redit they get “Then go use windows” (Linux is not a religion). or it’s opensource go do it yourself.
Is there a File Manager project that would like to implement features, there are many projects that allow feature request but don’t act on it.
I got many ideas.
Out of curiosity what mandatory features would you consider missing?
Preview Panel, Switch from breadcrum to directry only when clicked on remove that ugly arrow (nemo), View Selector is ugly, .directory file is a hit or miss across file managers File Picker doesn’t have a place jump to a directory, FIle Picker no Ctrl Shift N No recent panel
Frankly: You come across less as “I am missing these features in many Linux file managers” and more like “I tried the default filemanager of my Linux distro and am angry the UX isn’t identical to that of Windows”. That’s not going to garner you much sympathy. Of the things you listed, I’d only consider a “preview” pane (that I’d rather not have, because of the security implications of having a separate potentially vulnerable parser that may receive less dev attention when issues are found) and maybe a “recent panel” (Not sure what one needs that for, I’d rather my system not track my actions so blatantly easy to find) actual features, and, yeah, quite a few Linux file managers can do something like those, obviously.
All of these features are in KDE Plasma Dolphin.
Take a look the Dolphin settings and panels to enable these features.
Windows file explorer lacked tabs when dolphin had them for a decade or so and its still not even close to even the top of file managers. Also its terrible slow, unreliable, crashes often and has 4 different UIs baked in.
Do some plugins for Dolphin, I feel like they are neat because a) other devs that want to implement a function now have a blueprint for it b) with downloads/stars metric that these add-on stores provide you get a good idea of what the community actually wants.
The problem is not the lack of ideas, it is the programmers number and tech debt.
You can contribute to Dolphin KDE Plasma File Explorer: https://develop.kde.org/
They are actually respectful and work. even on the music tagger less people use.
i just want a tag based file explorer, but that’s way harder to do and it struggles with the core architecture of the system
Please, do elaborate.
I mainly use Yazi, Dolphin and sometimes Double Commander inside my GameImages.
I like the workflow of Yazi its so fast and the plugins provide most features that I require. It is terminal based which I really started to like.
