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> unique in its ability to display large directories without slowing down Dolphin is fast, but I wouldn't call it unique in that regard. Thunar was fast and p
by foresto 4y ago
> unique in its ability to display large directories without slowing down
Dolphin is fast, but I wouldn't call it unique in that regard.
Thunar was fast and powerful as well, and IMHO more intuitive than Dolphin. Unfortunately, it was ruined for me when Xfce adopted Gtk 3.
Before that was ROX Filer, perhaps the fastest I've used. I don't know if it's still maintained.
I think PCMan File Manager (from LXQt) might qualify as well.
- pxc 4y agoAll of those are so ugly and stripped down compared to Dolphin, though. (Maybe Thunar is more modern these days, at least?) Something like PCManFM is truly reminiscent of Win 9x.
- foresto 4y agoIn my experience, Thunar and Dolphin are comparable, with some features (e.g. bulk renaming, custom actions) much easier to use in Thunar. It's probably the thing I miss most about Xfce after switching to KDE. The others are indeed minimalist. My point was mainly about speed. A lightweight file manager is always a key consideration when I try a new desktop environment.
- Derbasti 4y agoDuring my dissertation, I routinely worked with directories containing hundreds of thousands of files. For not entirely unrelated reasons, I also had to reinstall the OS kind of a lot, and experimented with a few. Most file managers slow down terribly/crash when asked to display such a directory. Windows can't do it. Gnome can't do it. Dolphin doesn't even break a sweat. It's impressive. I bet it's technically because Dolphin is using the Qt List View, which lazy-loads its contents instead of being pre-filled with the entire list. At least that's what it feels like.