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File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by rob74 »

egeozcan wrote: post #68
keyle wrote: post #67

I've followed this developer for a while, I'm glad to see it finally out in the open. Then I looked at the pricing... wow, you really gotta dislike explorer.exe.

It's a one-time purchase of 40 bucks. 200 for priority support. It's not peanuts for many people but far from overpriced IMHO.

40 € includes one year of updates, if you want lifetime updates, you have to pay 200 €.

Good old Total Commander, the all-time classic alternative file manager for Windows, costs 42 € + VAT with lifetime updates (https://www.ghisler.com/order.htm). But yeah, I have to admit that the application looks as dated as the website...

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by semantecture »

Nice work, really snappy, love the "speed at the your fingertips" approach. I absolutly am willing to shell out some EUR for such life-altering tools.

I have been entrenched in the https://www.ghisler.com/ camp for 20+ years for three main reasons:

1. function keys for copy/move etc. like in mc, norton etc.

2. navigate (even larger) archive files in every format under the sun as if it were an extension of the file system. Blazingly fast and seamless.

3. the rich ecosystem of viewers , add-ons that has been added by the community at https://totalcmd.net/ over decades and is supported by the open source alternative implementation https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/

Any roadmap that has some of this on the list? [edited spelling]

Thanks for the cool work!

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by sumedh »

mrgoldenbrown wrote: post #26

Is this cross platform or is it targeted at a particular filesystem? I skimmed the site but couldn't find any info. The FAQ is full of pricing minutiae but nothing about what platforms are supported?

Windows only for now, other OS coming soon

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by progbits »

Wow that TortoiseSVN in context menu is a blast from the past!

Looks like it's still under active development. Is SVN still being used in some industries? I know it used to be big in gamedev but I would have expected everyone to have moved on by now.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by ap-andersson »

unquietwiki wrote: post #33

Looks promising, but I'm hard-pressed to think the $40/individual price point is reasonable. $10-20?

Yeah and its $40 per year it seems. While its good that you can continue using your version after that it does seem just a little much. I'm not sure I even want to try it now because I don't want to like it and then decide I can't afford it. I'm not against yearly license cost at all, I think that it can be hard for software companies to make something good without it. But for a new software it seems just a tad high. And I guess it will seem even more depending on where you live.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by asyncze »

keyle wrote: post #66
willaaam wrote: post #11

Please, I beg you dear developer, replace my stupid MacOS finder with your superpowers!

I don't think it's technically possible to even replace Finder. If you type "open ." in terminal, it will open in Finder. There is not an optional "set this as default" like browsers. Something we should really push Apple to do. Finder is trash.

Is it not possible to alias the open command?

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by 6510 »

user_7832 wrote: post #58
6510 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds interesting, I use to use a tool that showed a drives or folders content by file size. Larger files being larger boxes. It definitely seems useful to have a view where folders are simply boxes with ---names--- in their top border. A folder could also be a simple outline with its name in front of the file names. Something like this https://img.go-here.nl/folder-view.png

Thank you, that’s a nice photo and shows something very close to what I’m thinking about! (Albeit hopefully a little less barebones haha) Could you share the name of the software it is/was, or perhaps a link?

There is no software, I just make a drawing to see what I'm thinking. Ideas fail surprisingly often in the process. For example, here the boxes somewhat conflict with lining up the text and the line spacing. Some background color (rather than outlines) could better visualize the nesting and use less space. I think a folder that contains only one file should look almost exactly like the file was in the parent folder.

If the folder name is long it should probably fail back on the normal tree view rather than putting it in front of the files in the box. But then you get a mix of solutions which is undesirable.

I'm afraid people are to used to the traditional tree view. It is a surprisingly good solution now that I've bothered to think about it.

Folders should probably just have a value in the size column and the screens are large enough to have a column for the number of files. (the pilot does F:21 S:123) Empty folder and file font colors can be slightly translucent.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by stavros »

nipperkinfeet wrote: post #28

Wow, after so many useless bloated Electron based applications over the years, this is like a breath of fresh air. This is so fast, lightweight, portable, and uses only 17 MB of memory with XL icons of over 10k photos. Very impressive. If only more developers would quit their laziness and make such software again.

What GUI framework did they use for this?

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by qingcharles »

nipperkinfeet wrote: post #28

Wow, after so many useless bloated Electron based applications over the years, this is like a breath of fresh air. This is so fast, lightweight, portable, and uses only 17 MB of memory with XL icons of over 10k photos. Very impressive. If only more developers would quit their laziness and make such software again.

Really impressive. Basically has everything from Windows 11 Explorer without being a bloated POS.

Only thing I'd love is to be able to go bigger on the preview thumbnails. It's limited itself to the Windows sizes.

Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

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Post by qingcharles »

stavros wrote: post #78
nipperkinfeet wrote: post #28

Wow, after so many useless bloated Electron based applications over the years, this is like a breath of fresh air. This is so fast, lightweight, portable, and uses only 17 MB of memory with XL icons of over 10k photos. Very impressive. If only more developers would quit their laziness and make such software again.

What GUI framework did they use for this?

This is all I found:

"It's written in C and has custom OpenGL renderer."

https://filepilot.handmade.network/

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