What about Rox? It's about as simple as you can get. It's really pretty nice, too.

Yeah, it doesn't have loads of features, but it does what it's supposed to do: Manage files. Of course, it can also be used as a desktop environment in and of itself, and you get the added bonus that you can use whatever WM you choose with it.

Yeah, I just checked out ROX and it does look nice (my filemanager link now links to ROX instead of Konq :).

I'm still going to make one though :D.

Cheers!

Try gentoo file manager. (Nothing to do with gentoo distro)
It's inspired by DirectoryOpus 4. Ok, maybe it doesn't look very "modern" (gtk1) but it does the job on non high-end machines very well. Recommended stuff!

Konqueror is in my opinion very nice. It integrates well with the shell and provides the familiar Explorer interface (Get a nice windows style icon theme "Classic New Crips Icons" from kde-look.org). It loads resonably fast on my machine (900mhz, 384Mb RAM) about 2.5seconds. Konsole loads pretty fast too. On the other hand I can't stand Nautilus!

The thing I've discovered using Linux is that there's isn't much need for file browsing except in the Home folder where you will probably just have Documents, Pictures, Music, Programming related things. These usually are managed from the programs that use/open/edit/etc. them like KWord, ShowImg, [insert IDE here], XMMS. The only filebrowsing i do on Linux is in my documents directory. On windows on the other hand, you're always looking for things - games and software, plus all the other things mentioned above if you have them in disorder (knowing less computer-litterate people or just disorderly individuals, that happens a lot for them).

The problem is integrating with the shell, making your filemanager the default one. I don't know how this could be done, but it would be a very important feature because when i click the Home icon on my desktop i expect to get my prefered file manager if i install one and i don't want to go though the trouble of opening it from the menu. Worst thing of all is inconsistancy - sometimes your filemanger loads, sometime konqueror or nautilus.

I'm a keyboard guy so I'm rather satisfied with xterm and mc. However, I use Krusader from time to time. It's nice and pretty similar to Total Commander.

I got it to work once (only once) and I wasn't particularly impressed. I personally prefer the single-window file manager style ;).

Cheers!

I would PAY to have a Linux file manager that has the exact same functionality as Win Navigator.
Lack of a good (for me) file manager is what prevents me from using Linux on my desktop.

Quote: Original post by Raduprv
I would PAY to have a Linux file manager that has the exact same functionality as Win Navigator.
Lack of a good (for me) file manager is what prevents me from using Linux on my desktop.

Except for the double pane that Navigator has, Konqueror properly configured provides the same functionality as Windows Explorer and much more features (archives, ftp, web, encryption, etc).

I don't like Windows Explorer :)

Quote: Original post by Ilici
Konqueror properly configured provides the same functionality as Windows Explorer and much more features (archives, ftp, web, encryption, etc).

Windows Explorer has supported all that for quite some time (FTP isn't multi-threaded though, but then neither is Konq, so I rarely use that feature) just nobody seems to use it. In fact, there's a lot of functionality to Win Explorer that not many people seem to use or utilize.

But then again, new users to Linux absolutely love using a console window and never realized Windows has one as well. Nobody ever bothers to use it.