Hi all,

I'm running Fedora Core 3, and have decided that Nautilus if frankly a long, slow, painful experience most of the time and was wondering if there were any alternatives? I understand the situation may have improved with Gnome 2.12, but there aren't RPMs available for FC3 and I'm not prepared to build from source and take things out of yum control.

So, is there a better solution?


Cheers,

Jon

Have you ever used Total Commander in Windows? I found it to be way faster and efficient than any drag 'n drop File managers as Explorer or Nautilus. In this case, I would like to recommend you something like Midnight Commander:

http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

The main advantage is that mc runs on the terminal (command line) and it has an easy to use editor (mcedit). If you want something in the same style but graphical, try emelfm:

http://emelfm.sourceforge.net/

They both are small and should be available at your yum repositories.

Regards!

My prefered file-manager (I use it everywhere: Gnome, IceWM...) is ROX Filer.

Unfortunately, whatever alternative you choose, I don't know how to setup Gnome to open your chosen file-manager to handle files by default.

Example: there's a dir for which you wish to have link on your Gnome panel. From eg. ROX, you drag'n'drop the dir to the panel. Alright, this makes a launcher of type "link" that points to the proper dir. So far, so good. But if you click on this link, Nautilus will open instead of ROX because Nautilus is still the default handler of objects of type "file"...

Share you results

Yves.