Nautilus

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:53:44 +0100, Petter Adsen wrote:
>Like Ralf, I prefer SpaceFM, but Thunar is probably more appropriate
>for non-technical users.

It's possible to install the Holy Trinity, SpaceFM, Rodent and
Thunar, all can be set up to delete files, when the delete key is used,
but apart from this they differ a lot.

After a while a user might notice what file manager does fit best. For
most purposes I use command line, rm, ls, mv, cp, diff etc. and if
there should be a reason for me to use a file manager, then it's
SpaceFM. An older version of Rodent is usable too, but a newer version
on my machine suffers from serious performance issues.

SpaceFM by default might not provide everything a user needs, but it's
easy to create actions. SpaceFM is complete without the need to use a
crappy virtual file system. I've got a reason to use Thunar without
GVFS (assumed I would still use it), for some users Thunar would be
incomplete without GVFS.

However, I recommend to install SpaceFM, Rodent and Thunar and to use
all of them for a while. Some day a user likely will notice that one of
the three is used much more then the others.

Somebody used to Nautilus might want to take a look at Nemo and Caja or
if not that much is needed but e.g. a split window similar to mc, then
perhaps Xfe is interesting too.

Regards,
Ralf