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Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by deepsun » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 12:02 AM UTC

silver_silver wrote: post #13

joshmarinacci wrote: post #12

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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?

Yes, but Electron apps are about the same size: (Slack: 120MB, 1password: 136MB, Discord: 103MB).

But it was a problem in dial-up times, so maybe JavaFX appeared too early, when 150MB was not ok.

And Python runtime is about 20MB, but it's kinda assumed it's already installed (who knows which version though, for Python it's important, not so much with Java). Maybe Sun also expected their target audience to eventually have a JRE already installed on end-user machines.

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by deepsun » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 12:13 AM UTC

holoduke wrote: post #16

joshmarinacci wrote: post #12

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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.

But most popular modern desktop apps also bring the whole runtime packaged, just not Java (Node.js / Chromium) (Slack: 120MB, 1password: 136MB, Discord: 103MB).

So I don't see much a difference actually. 30MB is not a lot anymore, not for network, not for disk.

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by yanex » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 6:42 AM UTC

lolpanda wrote: post #14

owaislone wrote: post #9

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.

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?

The author here. Marta doesn't perform any network activity besides update checks, which you can disable. If you wish, you can block all network access for the application in your firewall.

Re: Marta File Manager: Back on Track

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 8:59 AM UTC

beanjuiceII wrote: post #11

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #10

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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?

If you pay $15 in total via Patreon, you'll get perpetual license.