I used to like winfile. Then I switched to the GNU command line, before eventually adopting ROX-Filer. ROX-Filer, now ageing, has no treeview. I do not miss it.

I used to like winfile. Then I switched to the GNU command line, before eventually adopting ROX-Filer. ROX-Filer, now ageing, has no treeview. I do not miss it. (I'm about to tell you my experience. Not because it contradicts yours or because I believe you're wrong, but just because it's different. I'm a different person, so it's no surprise.) I have no solution to (1). It's not something that worries me. The solution to (2) is for it to be conceptually light and easy to have multiple windows open. I use "new window on button 1" and single click to open. This more-or-less does the trick. However the thing which really converted me was the shear ease of using ROX-Filer by keyboard; it gives you access to a nice command-line style interface insofar as you can navigate to the folder you want easily and you can pick the operation first, then the files (i.e. on the commandline you say "rm thisfile", but most guis require you to say "thisfile delete it". ROX-Filer lets you say press DEL and then select the file.) It also has super awesome navigation. And I think most of all, you can switch modes (i.e. between navigating and interacting with files) with the keyboard - ESC or / depending on direction. Most other file managers require you to use the mouse or the TAB to switch modes, and if it's TAB you can't predict how many times you need to press it.