I'd have to go with MC. The built in editor is nice and useful.

spatial nautilus, yum :D

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This whole spatial thing is going to eventually get as bad as the vi vs. emacs contentiousness. Some LOVE it; others view it as a sign of the apocalypse. ;-)

Lol!

Mine used to be Konqueror for its speed, now its just Terminal>'Nautilus' in KDE for me! :D

Non spatial Nautilus :)

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I haven't run nautilus in years (since long before the development of spatial . I really need to check it out soon in both modes to see what all the shooting's about. (I typically use mc or emelfm2)

i agree with uman.
(also i've found a command called 'mv')

Ever used Windows 95? You'll be at home if you do....a window for everything under the sun! You'll be checking off "X"s for ever! Some peeps are for that type of thing. I'm not (perhaps I'm too lazy...)

uuugggggggghhhhh <shudder> `nuff said...........

Nautilus, because Gnome rocks.

Though I am looking into converting to XFCE.. :o

Krusader plus fluxbox (or another lightweight wm) gives you the integration and click-to-run features of KDE without the bloat. It rocks.

I use mc for "pure" file management, and anything that needs to be done as root, but if I'm dealing with any kind of data files I go with krusader.

The krename integration rocks as well.

Konqueror

F : cross-platform file-manager
 

This baby needs to be better known. Linux, OS/2, Win32, and other platforms. Works as a mail client, web server, ftp server/client. Approx 1.3mb in size. Works in a terminal or in an X-window. More features than you can shake a stick at. It is great to be able to move between so many different platforms and have such a fundamental tool working the same way on each.

If it was on the list, it would get my vote. I can't vote for any of the others. Please include it next year - it is offering something different from the others.

http://filemanager.free.fr

Nautilus for normal use and MidNight for heavy work !

I'm surprised XFFM isn't included. It comes with XFCE (even though many people seem to prefer rox), and it's the first graphical file manager I occassionaly find myself using.

While it probably started as a joke here, I would really like to vote 'command line'. I still do most of my file managing through ls, cp, mv, find, rm and such, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on this.

Konqueror!

Xandros File Manager

Nautilus

I voted for Knoqueror. It's so nicely integrated with KDE.

Jeremy

ls, cd should have been the way to go

Konqueror... it really has improved a lot, a lot... I think it is not very good for web browsing though... too much buttons and some weird behaviour.

Xfe
 

I voted for Xfe because I'll use that no matter what wm/de I'm in; though I like Nautilus, Konqueror, and Krusader because of their support of sftp.

Re: Xfe
 

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I start to use xfce again (hadn't in a couple of years) shortly after 4.2 was released. What an improvement! Faster than ever and even more configurable. Great session management as well. A few days ago I noticed a new version of Enlightenment had been released and had to give that a spin as well. I haven't used it in about three years and am pleasantly surprised playing with it for now. I keep switching wm's, sometimes swinging between mousy and keyboard tools (ratpoison and enlgihtenment??? ;-) ). I'm such a WM slut... <sigh>. Hey that's one of the tings that makes Linux great: CHOICE!! Have it YOUR way!

Re: Re: Xfe
 

...but the file manager is slooow. opening konqueror is faster than opening xffm... even when in xfce. nautilus and rox are faster (and use the same icons), nautilus and konqeror support sftp (and open faster), so i don't use xffm. it might have great features, but it's not nearly as smooth to work in as others.

Re: Re: Re: Xfe
 

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I think all of them (nautilus???????????? <ugggghhhh>) are way to slow. I prefered xfce's original file manager xftree. meanwhile I now use either emelfm2 or midnight commander. Both open almost instantly. Your original point is well taken: xffm is quite slow, though I don't find it significantly slower than konqueror and I doubt it's slower than nautilus which I've found to be a record setter (although its not too bad run with the --nodesktop option)

Konqueror frigging rules... check out KIO-locate http://www.kde-apps.org/content/pre2/17201-2.png or KIO-pod. Browse a remote machine via ssh.. simply amazing stuff. Krusader and MC are OK but I never liked the MC style window.

Bobby

Nifty. Reminds me of SHIO-locate somehow. ;)

Anyway - what I was posting about was that josiah's xfe is a different thing from xfce. I think he's talking a X File Explorer, which is a FOX app. Needs some radical work on the icons, but it's nicely functional and, indeed, doesn't tie you to any damn desktop. I prefer dual panes, command lines, and rox weirdness to tree-panes but it's a good one of that type. Only other of that type worth mentioning is Endeavour.

(I can't stand xfce's file manager.)

Konqueror!

Midnight Commander

Too bad "Total Commander" doesn't run quite right via WINE, or I'd suggest THAT ;) (Been using that on Windows forever...)

I would vote for evidence (the e file manager).

I believe that 2-panel file managers and others should have different polls. Thhese are totally different types.

I vote for emelfm!

What about EmelFM / EmelFM2?

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Didn't see your post there gunnix (I must be blind, I know), anyway I agree, EmelFM's cool.

Konqueror all the way. Fast, functional, and doubles as a web browser.

I believe the days of Konqueror as the favourite file manager are passe.

Konqueror as graphic manager and a combination of

cd, ls, mv, cp, scp, ...

for textbased file management :D

I think this poll depends a lot on the Desktop someones using. Most Gnome Users probably will vote for Nautilus and most KDE Users (like me :) ) will vote for Konqui.

I don't use either of those desktops, and like you, I like working with files from the command line.. But if I want something more graphical, emelfm2 or mc work well and are both quite powerful.

Konqueror.

still a big fan of rox. :cool:

Krusader

yeah... cd, ls, less, mv, cp, scp, tar, file, gzip, bzip2, bash builtins, etc. (oh looky, another chance to plug vi!) O'Reilly's book about these things isn't called "Unix Power Tools" for nothing. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/desc.html

Konqueror

Xfe is probably my vote for best software EVER. This is frankly what its all about.

konqueror because its good enough:o

XFM
 

My vote would have gone for XFM, Xandros File Manager. This application is to many the central awesome app that Xandros innovates. It's easy to use, you can encode your CD directly from it, burn CDs in an easy to use GUI, FTP/SFTP, and everything else you'd normally expect from a file manager.

You miss the [tab] ;) (thats probably even more used, at least that is at my box the case :D )

nothing beats the feeling of mc ;]

file manager
 

Filelight is great for me as I can rapidly locate files and their relative sizes across multiple drives. Cool!

Well, until other GUI file managers incorporate ssh/sftp as nicely as Konqueror does, it will remain at the top of the heap. Krusader does the job, but has to reconnect to the sftp server each time the directory is changed... perhaps a trip to the ol' bug reporting zoo is in order, but it doesn't matter enough to me when Konqueror and Nautilus do the job quite nicely. It may be unfashionable to say "Konqueror is my favorite," but really, how fashionable is it to state in random company that "Debian GNU/Linux is the most important thing for" blah blah blah? I digress. Give me a GUI file manager that does what Konqueror and Nautilus are able to do, without the gargantuan KDE/Gnome dependencies, and I doubt I'll go back. When I'm not in KDE/Gnome, i just use the CLI.