Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by yanex » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
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Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by cyrusmg » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:41 PM UTC

The file manager seems to be closed-source[1], does anyone know of any good open-source alternatives ?

[1] https://github.com/marta-file-manager/

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

What does this app provide that Finder doesn't? I see something about a background operation queue, which Finder does, archive support, which I have a QuickLook plugin for, and gadgets, which I can accomplish with services.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by darek » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:50 PM UTC

cyrusmg wrote: post #2

The file manager seems to be closed-source[1], does anyone know of any good open-source alternatives ? [1] https://github.com/marta-file-manager/

I've been using Nimble Commander for a while now. Snappy, similar to Total Commander on Windows and I love it. The developer recently made it open source and published the code on GitHub here: https://github.com/mikekazakov/nimble-commander

I'm not sure if that's the kind of open source you were looking for, but may be worth checking out.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by crispinb » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

On a first look, this looks fantastic. Just what I've been waiting for. Time will tell -- I have thought this about a couple of other file managers, but irritations have always eventually surfaced to drive me back to Finder.

The ST-style command palette alone makes this worth a decent evaluation.

First-run experience was a bit odd - Marta opened up with both panes empty, and all actions unavailable. I had to go to Go->Volumes in each pane and select a volume to show up. That's OK, it's a beta. Seems great so far.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by dymk » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:57 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #3

What does this app provide that Finder doesn't? I see something about a background operation queue, which Finder does, archive support, which I have a QuickLook plugin for, and gadgets, which I can accomplish with services.

Fully keyboard accessible, which at best Finder.app does badly. IDE-esque "any command" search for operations instead of going through a menu bar.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by yeasayer » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:58 PM UTC

I don't like that file operations are controlled by F1-F8 keys. This UX is unfriendly to macOS environment. Most users' F-row is in media keys mode by default, so you have to hold Fn otherwise. And I'm not even taking into account the Touch Bar.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by dymk » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 9:01 PM UTC

I would love vim keybindings for this. It's much more intuitive than Finder.app's keybindings, but I hate leaving my home row.

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by spython » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 9:04 PM UTC

Forklift[0] Does a very good job of being a stable and reliable double pane file manager with connectivity such as SFTP, S3, GoogleDrive and nice built in things like batch rename and file transfer queues.

[0] https://binarynights.com/

Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta

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Post by josteink » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

cyrusmg wrote: post #2

The file manager seems to be closed-source[1], does anyone know of any good open-source alternatives ? [1] https://github.com/marta-file-manager/

While I think downvoting this comment is unfair, it should be noted that if you care about your OS and tools being open-source, you probably shouldn’t be running OSX in the first place.

I might even suggest running Linux. Oh my :)