If there's one thing that is going to drive me away from Gnome, it's the crappy GTK file managers.
Thunar has some odd drag and drop bugs that bug me, and the way it focuses on the panes is very odd, so often I will think one pane is in focus when it's not.
Double commander is just a mess
Nautilus is broken on my install.
Nemo doesn't remember position. Same with pcmanfm.
I tried Krusader and it doesn't work great in Gnome. Neither does Dolphin.
@thelinuxcast terminal file managers aren't for everyone but I'm quite attached 'nnn'. Fast, simple, extended with plugins (scripts), file previews (even video previews now), it's also my neovim file picker. I've tried a few gui ones, they all mostly suck for me.
@thelinuxcast drag n drop for copying/moving files? if so it's fast n easy. There's a plugin that uses a pkg called dragon that creates a drag n drop gui draggable 'widget' of the file/folder so you can interact with gui stuff. Not for you maybe but just a fyi
@thelinuxcast Best file manager I have ever used on GTK is elementary OS's "Files" Its simple, its powerful, if I want to do something trickier, its the CLI.
@thelinuxcast this sounds weird, indeed. I assume there is nothing very helpful when running it with debug flags from the command line? Or any other meaningful logs?
The only thing that comes to my mind with this behavior is „thumbnail generating“.
@dschier I haven't looked into it,tbh. I don't care for nautilus even when it is working. But having it as a backup may be nice. So I may troubleshoot it.
@dschier Creating one did speed Nautilus up. I do use an alternative home structure, so maybe because it doesn't see things where XDG Dirs thinks they should be. I have that file defined for the new locations, though, so IDK.
@thelinuxcast if nautilus really behaves this way, it seems like a bug to me. Yet, it is considered to be running in GNOME, so I don’t see this behavior fixed/adjusted soon.
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