BlazePilot - Graphical Filemanager for Linux
I'm kinda still shopping around for a good graphical filemanager. This is of course still very raw, but the tagging system might actually take care of the bookmark aspect, which is very important to me.
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Unused deps:
cfg-if,mime_guess,sysinfoUnused dep openssl. There are mentions of it being used for "remote compilation". I have no idea what that means, or how it would work by adding a dependency like this. Not only
opensslis not referenced anywhere in code, but it's not even a build/dev dependency, and there is nobuild.rsfile.Depends on
ffmpeg-sidecarwhich apparently downloadsffmpegbinaries from weird places ifffmpegis not in$PATH, a crate apparently "inspired" by webshits, and based on a GitHub action (which clearly has a very different threat model compared to executing those binaries on end-user machines).This looks good but the readme gives major AI vibes - anyone know more about the AI usage on this project? I’ll trust a clanker with translating / formatting the readme but absolutely not with writing code to handle my files lol
I've no idea. I kinda assume AI is basically used everywhere, but unless explicitely stated one can seldom be sure.
What are you looking for in a file manager?
I assume that you've already tried KDEs dolphin? The shortcomings off your list it has that I see:
It does the rest though, is there something about it you don't like?
Dolphin is somewhat ok-ish, exactly like you say. It's slightly better than that gnome-thingy I'm forced to use at work, but the bookmarks aspect it important enough for me to avoid it for personal usage (where I'm free to choose).
"File commands don’t block GUI" means: If I e.g. copy a file, I want to directly use the filemanager, even while the copy is still running. I think most of the more popular file managers do this, but it is really important :)
I wish you luck finding what you need. How would you have your bookmarks, something like subfolders?
Thank you :) I've not been successfull really thus far. My best hope is that someone cooks up something in Rust that I can contribute to/fork to make it into what I want. One can dream ;) I use doublecmd right now, which ticks many boxes, but has some other oddities.
Yeah, so, bookmarks, I "just" need to be able to organize them, like with a folder structure (or even subfolders, but I don't want to get greedy), and name them independently of their target. Using tags as a folder substitute is probably ok, that's why I looked at blazepilot. I also don't want that dreaded "places" list wasting my screen space, so maybe putting them into a menu or behind a shortcut is in order...
Do you have any experience with C++? I bet if you could tweak Dolphins Folder panel to display a certain folder instead of mirroring current location, you could then direct it to a folder (with subfolders!) with symlinks in it.
Ha, nice idea, but I don't know C++ and that's a yak I won't shave :) I've also tried working with a folder with symlinks, and I discarded the idea for some reason I'm not really sure on (I think it has something to do with the fact that entering a symlinked directory will have you work inside the symlink, rather than the symlink's target).