File Manager of the Year
 

What is your file manager of choice?

--jeremy

I suggest you add worker to the list, see here.
It is mature, well maintained, features full, highly configurable - and if it is not included I won't be able to vote on this poll ;)

Worker was removed as it was in the category last year for the duration of the poll and did not get a single vote.

--jeremy

It's my fault, then :(

Probably a long shot, but how about vifm. It has gone through a lot of changes in the last few months.

vifm has been added.

--jeremy

ROX-Filer in gui
MC/Midnight Commander in init-3 boot

Dolphin looks pretty good for me.

I don't expect it to be added, but emacs is my real fav! ;)

While I wouldn't vote for it, EagleMode is pretty cool. I use Dolphin.

It's not a 'file manager' per se, but I just use ls, rm, cp, mv, ln, etc. for all my filesystem needs.

I only use two of the available choices on a regular basis. Dolphin and Midnight Commander. I use Nautilus, Thunar depending on the system. The vote goes to Midnight Commander, I've been using it the longest. If a system does not have it installed it is one of the first things that happens.

Why there is no core-utils?

Recently I took the time to learn MC's keybindings. I really like it now.

Dolphin - user-friendly and very configurable (with no Nepomuk/Strigi rubbish)

I voted konqueror but I also use mc

MC 4.8 is a massive improvement over 4.7. It includes two cool 256-color themes and follows freedesktop.org conventions: for example, its config files now go in ~/.config/mc. It also (finally) has UTF-8 support.

It definitely has my vote.

If only they'd fix the SSL certificate on the project homepage.

+1 for thunar, even if its not the best file manager, still much better than KDE's bloated stuff.. To remedy to Thunar's simplicity, I use core-utils and CLI as much as possible..

Nautilus everywhere...!!!

Thanks for the info - I'm going to upgrade it on my systems.

Hi,

Nautilus since I use it the most.

Kind regards,

Eric

Rodent [1] is missing from the list.
[1] http://xffm.org/

'EmelFM/EmelFM2' is misspelled: should read 'emelFM/emelFM2'

Are there reasons to keep the awkward 'emelFM/emelFM2' choice? Many programmes have ancestors, but you seem to point them only for emel. For example, I didn't see a 'Gnome 2/Gnome 3' choice in DE.

Personally I find useful Thunar, emelFM2 and Rodent in different settings, but voted for emel.

PCmanfm wins my vote because it has hal and dbus support and minimal system requirements (ram, cpu and such).

Thanks for the link. I didn't know Rodent before. It looks interesting.

Rodent has been added.

--jeremy

Updated, thanks.

--jeremy

Depends which environment I'm using at the time, such as Gnome2 - Nautilas, KDE4 - Dolphin, Xfce4 - Xfm...

My choice also. Doubly so since I already use KDE, and it's already installed, no point in learning another.

Thunar :)

PCManFM here in LXDE

I do believe what Desktop Environment is being used is a factor here.

Personally, using KDE, it's a big thumbs up for Dolphin.

Then again Konqueror -'Super User Mode' has its place under KDE, in my opinion.

Lots of permutations by jingo... :twocents:

Thunar is too heavyweight for my liking, but I use it the most anyway.

And it deserves a vote because of the bad-ass viking on the about screen. That's the only reason I prefer it over pcmanfm.

I do not expect it to be added but here it is still GNU Emacs ...

Rox-filer in X, mc or ranger out of X.

Nautilus
and
Midnight Commander

Also, should Andromeda be added to the poll? I like its style, if it had more customisation options it would be my top pick. I'm sure someone out there likes it more than the other file managers.

Nautilus followed by GNOME Commander. In certain instances GNOME Commander is better.

Andromeda has been added.

--jeremy

When I want a file manager I use Konqueror.

And the winner again... Vim!
 

I chose Thunar, and Dolphin is something I use a lot too - it just depends on whether I'm using Xfce or KDE for the most part, and Midnight Commander... well it's good to see that it's actually listed - as it should be ;)

But really, Vim, vi, cp, cpio, dd, rsync, and mv are the ones I really use the most LOL!

I hope that helps :)

Kindest regards,

.

Nautilus. Hands-down.

Double Commander
 

I'd propose Double Commander (doublecmd), it's still new and not fully finished, but it's a nice and functional multiplatform Total Commander clone...

It's either Thunar or PCManFM for me, but i choose Thunar because custom right click menu wins.

I think Doublecmd should be in this list, because once you try it, nothing ese really works for you :)

Double Commander has been added.

--jeremy

+1 to Dolphin. I use it all the time, especially in gnome. Why? i like the little plus symbols for highlighting files when they're not all in a nice neat square. I also like how when you drag and drop a file in Dolphin, you get the option to, copy, move, or create a symlink. Konqueror also has these features and i personally like it better as a file manager, but i think konqueror as a web browser is horrible, and as a gnome user, i'd rather bring in just a file manager then, a swis army knife file manger web browser combo. And for these reason, i use Dolphin.

A additional note that's just come to mind, i also like how Dolphin doesn't try to take over the desktop in xfce, like bloody Nautilus does. I hate Nautilus.

Nautilus

Nautilus and it's forks are excellent, so is Dolphin. But I need a icon based fm with instant access to command line where I can see output on stdout/stderr. And I need a fm which actually uses the extra cores on my box for something useful. And I don't need extra crap on my fm apart from icons (like bookmarks, menus, trees and the like): I want to be distracted the least from my work, which is darn more important. And I never want to be treated like a moron: if I want bookmarks, I will define them, I do not need a filemanager to create bookmarks and directories and tell me tha't where I should keep my "videos", "music" or whatever.

That's why I use Rodent.

Granted, Rodent is still missing things like transparent access to mobile phones, ftp servers, ssh/sftp hosts and smb servers, but that stuff is in the oven and will soon be available to the general public.

Thunar
 

This is by far the best file manager that I have found to date. My favorite feature is the custom actions. I will warn you though, the custom actions will make you lazy.

I do like Thunar, if i'm not using Dolphin, it'll be Thunar. I've never looked into the the Thunar extensions. I should, and if i'm happy, maybe i can replace Dolphin and have a more native file manager to my gtk environment.