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Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by deepsun »

Re. native part -- I recently explored JavaFX for desktop, and found it's actually very fast, both to run and to develop in. I'd say it's a joy to use, don't understand why market now prefers other heavy-weight solutions like Electron. Maybe it was released at a wrong time, when Sun Microsystems had troubles? Maybe it was too early? Or maybe a ton of software is being written in it without fanfares, I dunno.

The whole binding stuff is neat, feels like a predecessor to Reactive Streams (which is itself is already standardized in Java under java.util.concurrent).

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by out_of_protocol »

Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac. Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and behaves weird on network operations.

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Post by ThinkBeat »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #3

Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac. Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and behaves weird on network operations.

Pathfinder is great for my needs.

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by anta40 »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #3

Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac. Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and behaves weird on network operations.

Wonder if you ever tried these:

- QSpace (https://qspace.awehunt.com/en-us/index.html)

- Commander One (https://commander-one.com)

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by out_of_protocol »

anta40 wrote: post #6
out_of_protocol wrote: post #3

Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac. Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and behaves weird on network operations.

Wonder if you ever tried these: - QSpace ( https://qspace.awehunt.com/en-us/index.html ) - Commander One ( https://commander-one.com )

Commander One is kinda barebones, QSpace looks like Finder plus some bonus stuff. Compared to godly Total Commander (on windows), everything else is very shallow. Double Commander tried to replicate it, and kinda succeeded, to an extent. It's not about big shiny features, it's about all the small nitpicks you do regularly.

Example: move file panel cursor on a file (as example, big text file), press F3 to open it. Built-in preview opens first page very fast even if file is 1GB+, by not loading anything except the first page ;) scrolling also works without visual lag even on slow HDD. Now press ESC and focus is back on a window you came from and can continue navigation.

Something as simple as focus thing is regularly broken on oh so many file managers

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by dymk »

deepsun wrote: post #2

Re. native part -- I recently explored JavaFX for desktop, and found it's actually very fast, both to run and to develop in. I'd say it's a joy to use, don't understand why market now prefers other heavy-weight solutions like Electron. Maybe it was released at a wrong time, when Sun Microsystems had troubles? Maybe it was too early? Or maybe a ton of software is being written in it without fanfares, I dunno. The whol…

Wouldn’t you need to have a JVM installed to deploy a JavaFX app? Is there something for bundling self-contained Java apps easily?
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