The Evidence (fm for E17) has few good technical qualities. It is (or it claims to be) able to use KDEs IO slaves (gzip, ssh, and such), GNOMEs VFS (I guess it's something similar to IO slaves) and E17s own EFSD as a backend. It also "talks" KDEs DCOP and the new comer (hopefully embraced by both GNOME and KDE projects) D-BUS IPC. It can be compiled with GTK2 or E17s Evas as the primary rendering facility.

Quick testing showed that the Evidence is crap (might have been broken CVS version ;) ) but I really like this cross desktop uniting options. If I have KDE I choose IO slaves, if I have GNOME I choose VFS and if I have both I may use both.

Also doodle is something evidence uses. It sounds great altough I bet there's several other indexing projects going on with KDE and/or GNOME. Basicly doodle indexes your files so that you can search by using metainformation contained in files such as PDFs or MP3s.

Evidence features page

Oh and if you create your own filemanager for Linux, please make sure it conforms to freedesktop.orgs standards!

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what about Endeavor? Isn't it already like explorer and lightweight(and powerful too).

Can you please supply a link? I tried this, but came up with nothing.

whoops looks like I spelt it wrong, should be:
apt-get install endeavour2

It should be able to have multible windows.
It should have something like a (multi)session save for multible windows. So I could with easy sort my pictures. Stop that and close all windows at the same time , and next time it starts all windows start at the old postion on screen and in the file system.

I agree that session saving is one that should be in there. I'd very much like to go in and hit a button and have all my windows where they need to be. It would be like bookmarks, you store the current configuration/paths of all the windows and then when you call a new session on that bookmark it loads all the windows correctly. Would save me lots of time that would have been spent double clicking through a bunch of windows.

I just installed SUSE and I use Konqueror. I have no problem with it. I've read that using certain file systems can have an impact on performance. I use the Reiser file system and I get great performance with no lads except when I copy or move files.

Why don't you just make mods for Konqueror?

Cause I think Konqueror is a bit slow (on my 3.0 GHz system it takes about 2.5 seconds to load). Yeah, I know 2.5 seconds isn't much but when you're like me (working through the GUI all the time instead of console, which BTW Konsole is slow-loading too), it can add up quickly...

I was going to try Krusader (which might have been better than Konq) but it wouldn't even load on my system (due to an 'symbol not found' error... [sad]).

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! Anything else you have to add would definitely be appreciated!

I think something in the lines of directory opus would be terrific

Endeavour 2 is quite good, too bad it doesn't have a GTK 2 interface. Is porting to GTK2 from GTK1.2 too hard or all is needed is to link to glib2 ?

The only problem i had was that executing files did not work (!!). Nor did opening archives..

Oh, one thing that I would love to see in a file manager would me ASCII mode! For all of us performance hungry apes [smile]

Did i hear someone mention Midnight Commander? No?