Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source code anywhere.
It is not Open Source. But it is the best file manager on macOS.
whats the catch? not open source but free?
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#12Re. 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?
The JDK now supports building standalone executables.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO...
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Wouldn’t you need to have a JVM installed to deploy a JavaFX app? Is there something for bundling self-contained Java apps easily?
The JDK now supports building standalone executables. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO...
Would this generate ~150mb images like the similarly-named jpackage or is it possible to trim down the runtime?
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#14Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source code anywhere.
what do people think about installing new software from less well known companies and giving the app full access to all your files? how would i convince myself that this software won't upload my data in the background?
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It is not Open Source. But it is the best file manager on macOS.
whats the catch? not open source but free?
A year or two ago when I first read about it, I saw in the software faq, or maybe it was a post by its creator on HN itself or reddit, that they will make it paid once it reaches stable version(version 1?).
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Wouldn’t you need to have a JVM installed to deploy a JavaFX app? Is there something for bundling self-contained Java apps easily?
The JDK now supports building standalone executables. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO...
Problem is that the entire runtime is packaged. Nice for large enterprise solutions, but not for small apps.
And if I remember correctly the memory footprint isn't nice either.
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The JDK now supports building standalone executables. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO...
Problem is that the entire runtime is packaged. Nice for large enterprise solutions, but not for small apps. And if I remember correctly the memory footprint isn't nice either.
You can trim down the runtime[1] but the tooling around doing this is non-existent / unreliable. Alternatively, you can generate native binaries with GraalVM[2] which comes with its own baggage (license, slow compile time, etc).
[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-apps-platf...
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#19Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source code anywhere.
what do people think about installing new software from less well known companies and giving the app full access to all your files? how would i convince myself that this software won't upload my data in the background?
I personally have a hard time trusting closed source software random sources I've never heard of before. Maybe I'm just too paranoid but I try not to run random software especially something that has as widespread access to my data as a file-manager.
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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. Bui…
Does Total Commander work under Wine?