2 pane, swiss army knife file manager?

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, 32 bit, installed on a quad core Phenom.

A decade back, midnight commander, aka mc, was _the_ tool of choice.  
Stable, extremely capable with a builtin ftp client/server, one could 
literally move a file from anyplace on the planet to anyplace else on the 
planet if you knew the passwords for those places.

Then 3 or 4 years ago we suddenly had Krusader, but it turned out to be 
unstable, and missing 90% of mc's abilities, so we panned it without mercy 
as a pretty face with nothing behind it.  Rather than fix it, it seem to 
have been dropped.

In the meantime, the os around mc has matured but mc is stagnant not 
getting the needed TLC and updates to keep pace, and slowly bit rotting 
away.  Here, it is not a bit unusual to have its qui destroyed to the point 
that you are forced to guess where the lower bars F10 button may be just to 
quit it and restart it later to restore the ncurses gui it uses since some 
genius has seen fit to grab the F10 key to open some menu that has nothing 
to do with mc.

Its like your car is dripping antifreeze, and your pet, unknown to you is 
licking it up since its sweet to them, but it is not pretty to watch an 
antifreeze poisoned pet die, which is essentially the present situation 
with mc.

I just spent an hour scanning for 2 pane file managers in the synaptic ALL 
listing without finding anything but mc.

So, what are we supposed to use today?

Thanks folks.

Cheers, Gene
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