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For users prefering GUI applications, I would like to suggest Sunflower FM, a GTK3 based dual-pane file manager: https://sunflower-fm.org/ As usual with such applications it seems to be a bit on hiatus, but maybe some developers would be interested to lend a hand?

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All GUI OFM-s I've seen missed the main (IMO) feature of Midnight Commander: seamless integration with the plain shell. In MC I can select files with Ins/*, then run command with %t macro to process selected files, then press Ctrl+o and look to the shell output, then maybe run some other shell commands in the full-screen mode, then press Ctrl+o again and return to the dual-panel mode. Moreover, I can edit shell script with the embedded editor (F4), then press Ctrl+o, run the script, read the output, press Ctrl+o and edit the script if needed.

Also double commander is pretty good, I remember it having both Qt and GTK interfaces. Also it's almost a one to one clone of Total Commander, the greatest orthodox file manager in existence.

And for users of GUIs who are (understandably) fed up with GNOME and all the GTK Stuff, I can wholeheartedly recommend Dolphin, KDEs standard filebrowser.

Which isn't on Hiatus, doesn't require GTK, and has switchable Split views (aka. dual-pane), and tabs (where each tab may have its own split view).

Krusader is made for that.

Dolphin isa a bit useless for serious operations. It uses KIO for file operations (copy, move...), that invokes separate API call for every file, and is very slow and unreliable for large number of files.

Other file managers (Thunar in XFCE) do not have this problem.

GUI file managers are usually used for things where speed is a non-issue. For anything else, Right-Click "Open Terminal Here".

I used Dolphin for a short while, but it's a bit slow and unreliable with large copying.

Went back to caja.

Last commit on github[0] seems to be from 2 days ago. And the previous one from last april. I'd say that the home page is on hiatus, not the project.

[0] https://github.com/MeanEYE/Sunflower

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