Please make a mac version.
I will.
I will pay for it!
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
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Way more maintainable than anything from MS that I'd have to deal with.
How about the CPU usage? Running a main loop at 60hz for a file manager sounds bit overkill. Agree about the MS offerings. That's why I use cross-platform frameworks (wx, qt) even for the Win-only apps.
Give the demo a try. I compared the CPU usage to the win10 file explorer, and they look identical (both are minuscule); it's super impressive.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#203Wow, 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.
This x100000000.
I am probably repeating your comment in my sleep, word for word.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#204Man..I've been evaluating Directory Opus these past days. I still did not try FilePilot. I was almost ready to buy Dopus, now I don't know.
Can you opensource the GUI part? It would be really useful for other people that want to build these kind of apps.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#205Looks promising, but I'm hard-pressed to think the $40/individual price point is reasonable. $10-20?
Yeah, this feels more like a 25-35 tops type of software, I wouldn’t think twice. At least the beta is still free now. $50 which is the default price, is too much.
For something you use everyday multiple times per day?
Good software costs money.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#206I once devoted 2 years of my life to developing a file manager called fman [1]. In total, it generated probably 35,000$ in profits, so my income from the project is somewhere around 10 $/h. As software developers, our opportunity costs are high. I use my file manager to this day and love it. But I regret spending so much time on it. Congratulations on your launch. I wish you more success than I've had. Failing that,…
> But I regret spending so much time on it
Just curious, what aspects do you regret?
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#207I once devoted 2 years of my life to developing a file manager called fman [1]. In total, it generated probably 35,000$ in profits, so my income from the project is somewhere around 10 $/h. As software developers, our opportunity costs are high. I use my file manager to this day and love it. But I regret spending so much time on it. Congratulations on your launch. I wish you more success than I've had. Failing that,…
Holy heck! I remember fman, and it was amazing! Literally the only file manager I used that could hold a candle to Total Commander. I remember everyone hating on it on linux forums, because it wasn't open source, despite nothing in the linux world coming close.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#208Quick questions/observations: 1. Is there a way to reassign/set keyboard shortcuts? 2. Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening the "hamburger/3-dots" menu? 3. In the "hamburger/3-dots" menu, there is an option the open a cmd shell, but there seems to be no shortcut for it. 4. While in "quick filter mode" the context menu key does not work (but the context menu does when using right mouse button) [1] In windows explo…
Ctrl+Shift+P > cmd
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean all those complex UI stuff code is written in immediate GUI? How maintainable/readable is the resulting code?
Way more maintainable than anything from MS that I'd have to deal with.
How is the support for CJK and insane Unicode like emoji surrogates? Dealing with some of those edge cases can break a man.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
If everything goes well with Windows and the project becomes financially stable, a macOS version is planned.
Mac user tend to buy premium apps more, so you should just made for mac anyway.
It does seem like there are more well made, premium apps on Mac. I’ve always been jealous. Eventually a clone is made that supports Windows, but it always seems a bit worse.