GNOME 3.2's New File Manager, Emperor

what an ugly waste of time, I thought they were short of developers? then you realise where it's all gone writing garbage like this.

I agree that this is a waste of time. There are many midnight commander like file managers in Linux land. While I like mc and it's variants, and I personally use mc and mucommander(cross platform) a lot I don't really how this benefit Gnome 3. I think the time should be used improving Nautilus. Nautilus is not very power user friendly. I myself often having to use Nautilus in combo with pcmanfm, thundar, konqueror or mucommander depending on with distro I'm using top get simple things done that Nautilus make difficult.

yeah obviously it's because the hard problems are too tough to do, so errr, what do I do now? oh! cool! lets write a new file manager......

and we all wonder why linux always seems about 5 years behind microsoft and apple, it's because none of the serious problems ever get tackled, we are just treated to a new colour of bikeshed every few years....

I love linux, but thats also why I'm so angry at the guys who write code for it....and no, I don't plan on getting involved, it's their mess, let them sort it out...

before anybody retorts....no, just because I refuse to get involved, doesn't remove my ability to tell you that they've done a crap job.

Umm... in Nautilus, hit F3 to get a second pane. Hit Ctrl+L to get the file path. And it already includes network file system support, etc. If they're concerned enough about the mentioned features to put time into something like this (when there are already plenty of MC clones), why not focus those efforts and feature implementations on Nautilus? Splintered efforts like this and the disregard of (quality) user feedback don't bode well for the Gnome team right now.

Gnome doesn't need a new file mnager. The one it has at present is perfectly adequate.
This is why Gnome's in the mess it is - unnecessary and poorly conceived changes.

f2=rename! Give me a break. Keyboards should do away with function keys and make the keys bigger.

Uh, look at the URLs...this is *not* an upstream GNOME project, guys. It has nothing to do with GNOME 3.2.

Nice, but Midnight Commander's good enough for me

What's this, gnome commander revamped? Seriously, if it can handle billions of files without crashing, I'll use it.