I’m on gnome using the default file explorer (nautilus) and it’s fine, but I wish there were more ways to display files, I like MacOS style. What’s your favorite?

  • glubunny
    1·
    3 years ago

    Display bugs: whenever something changes in the underlying file system, the changes are not always reflected. Backend bugs: deleting files causes CPU usage to soar up for whatever reason. Long standing bug, might be related to GVFS, but still not really sure. I also got a few crashes but can’t remember exactly.

    Compared to KDE Dolphin it also lacks some much needed features, such as the dialog window when copying files with filename conflict which could display more information (and a thumbnail).

    I contributed some patches in the past, and the maintainer is a really cool person. Just need to find time to contribute more…

    • PeterLinuxer
      2·
      3 years ago

      Thanks for your contributions in the past and for considering contributing in the future. It’S perfectly understandanble that you (like everybody) have limited time.

      I’m not sure about the bugs you mentioned. I haven’t had a Thunar bug for a while. But I remember vaguely now that some large file operations aborted silently before being completed. When I delete several hundreds of files on an USB stick it takes forever but I thought this is due to the filesystem (freeing up every single cluster) and not specific to Thunar, but I may be wrong on this.