2 pane, swiss army knife file manager?

[Nils Kassube]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> A decade back, midnight commander, aka mc, was _the_ tool of choice.
> Stable, extremely capable with a builtin ftp client/server, one could
> literally move a file from anyplace on the planet to anyplace else on
> the planet if you knew the passwords for those places.
> 
> Then 3 or 4 years ago we suddenly had Krusader, but it turned out to
> be unstable, and missing 90% of mc's abilities, so we panned it
> without mercy as a pretty face with nothing behind it.  Rather than
> fix it, it seem to have been dropped.

IIRC, Krusader was a KDE3 thing - and KDE3 is gone ...

> In the meantime, the os around mc has matured but mc is stagnant

> I just spent an hour scanning for 2 pane file managers in the
> synaptic ALL listing without finding anything but mc.

Try Konqueror. You can have a layout similar to MC if you want (settings 
-> load view profile -> midnight commander). And you can use SFTP to 
access remote files (don't know about ftp).


Nils