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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 regularfry »

pjc50 wrote: post #100
stavros wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What GUI framework did they use for this?

It looks like WPF but isn't. Sibling comment suggests sui generis, which explains the tiny size and lack of dependencies. This does make it blindingly fast but makes the keymappings different from what you'd normally expect. Haven't tested annoying cases e.g. two monitors with different DPI. edit: report of poor CJK support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43100494 ; Windows file system encoding is annoying becau…

This is always, always the tradeoff with custom UIs. The edge cases eat you alive.

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

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Post by RNAlfons »

This is a really sexy explorer.

I love it. Love how snappy it is, love the thought that went into it, love the dark design. Awesome. I'll keep using the beta at work as long as I can but unfortunately I won't get funds to buy it for work. It's too bad that you can get updates only for one year with the normal license. Would have considered buying it for the price for private use but 200 is just too much for a file explorer.

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

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Post by mrlinx »

vjekoslav wrote: post #107
usmanmehmood55 wrote: post #83

This is SO much better than Windows explorer! And I'm more than happy to pay for it. The only issue I have noticed is that the context menu takes a while to open, and it is made worse because of the opening and closing animation. It keeps bugging me because I feel like the context menu of Windows explorer is a bit snappier than this. I might be wrong but that's what it feels like.

That's FP waiting for Windows. When it takes longer, it's usually a third-party plugin initializing. I have some things to try to mitigate these issues, but unfortunately, this whole architecture is broken. MS should not have allowed extensions to take over.

Would you recommend any app to "troubleshoot" these delays? Maybe a tool that helps seeing which extensions take long to load?

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

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Post by mexicocitinluez »

nanna wrote: post #133
scarfaceneo wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two completely unrelated products.

Dired, the file manager that comes in Emacs, is 'completely unrelated' to a file manager named File Pilot?

Yes.

A file manager tied to Emacs is completely unrelated to a Windows-based file system app. You're trying to make your video relevant and it's not.

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

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Post by Leftium »

user_7832 wrote: post #36

I’m not sure if this is really the right place to ask, but it’s close enough so I’ll ask anyway - why are there no apparent file explorers that allow simultaneous “multi depth” viewing? For example, if Folder A contains only Subfolders B and C which are both empty, why are there no explorers that show eg 2 boxes called ‘B’ and ‘C’ inside A’s icon/view? If a directly has dozens of empty folders, and 2 subfolders have…

Directory Opus has a "flat tree" view (as well as a plain "flat" view): https://imgur.com/3uqW8it

Directory Opus can also calculate & display the sizes of folders including all child content. (The calculation is nearly instant if Everything integration is enabled.)

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

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Post by basch »

huhtenberg wrote: post #126
semantecture wrote: post #72

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 sy…

Between all two-panel clones of the Norton Commander [1] FAR [2] is by far the best of the bunch /rimshot. Very keyboard-oriented, extremely capable, super fast, open source with a vast plug-in library. A console app on top of that and it looks like the original. What's not to like. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander [2] https://www.farmanager.com/

on windows I was partial to Saladin https://saladin.mimec.org/

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

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Post by JavierFlores09 »

leimbacher wrote: post #134

Could somebody please explain how people are ready to invest their own time into development of such projects? I mean it's so risky and at the same time one still has to pay the bills.

I'd like to believe any developer has more than a few pet projects around which they dedicate their time into whenever one has free time. Some get forgotten, others are overly specific to be marketed at all but maybe that one in a hundred has the opportunity to become a good investment, so it is just matter of buckling up and trying to ship it to the world. This doesn't mean it's going to make you financially successful, but actually delivering products does give you the experience of knowing what makes a successful one if anything at all. If you are lucky, you may break even in terms of time/resources spent after all the ordeal and you also get experience, though I wouldn't say that's the experience of most for the first few times, there's always a point in trying.

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

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Post by kps »

exceptione wrote: post #117
Sweepi wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really, dolphin is best? Using Dolphin on Nobara right now, and the pinned items in the left pane are not there in the systems "file open" dialog, the dialog does not even have breadcrumbs(!!). Or am I holding it wrong?

You have the option of what applications will show the pin. Right click on an item and you can choose if this is global or app-specific (in this case dolphin, but you can indeed pin per app!). The file open dialog is likely the "portal", which works securely across sandboxed applications. Every Linux does have a portal implementation. In KDE this portal has quite some features, but it could be that some are not avail…

Might be https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406450 as in https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=158755

tl;dr There's a ‘filename’ version and a ‘URL’ version of the dialog. Some things are incorrectly missing from the ‘filename’ version because they're internally implemented using URLs.

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

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Post by endigma »

vjekoslav wrote: post #116
endigma wrote: post #17

Rather poetically, this C software in 2025 segfaults on launch. I would file a GitHub issue if this was open source, but alas, nope.

Are you running it inside a VM or Wine?

Nope, just the installer, win11
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