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Description

Screenshot gentoo is a file manager written in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit, and the two-pane concept. What makes gentoo stand out are its graphical configurability and its real cool file typing and styling system. Using the latter, gentoo identifies the type of your files and then uses the style you've defined for the type to determine how to display it in listings. The package includes a set of ~100 unique handcrafted icons, for many different types of files.

Features

Written from scratch, using ANSI C and the GTK+ toolkit.
Aims to be 100% graphically configurable, and comes pretty close, too.
Very cool (!) file typing and -styling systems allows you to configure how files of different types are shown (with colors and icons), and what happens when you doubleclick them (spawn image viewers, music players, etc).
Includes more than 120 original pixmaps icons (16x15 pixels).
Internal support for most file operations (copy, move, rename, rename, makedir etc).

Source

http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/

Related Urls

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentoo/

Comments

"two-pane" really means the Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm.

Things I especially like:

Preconfigured file association! Better than XNC. This is the only one that hasn't cause me shaking my head yet.
Extensively configurable. Build the look and reactions you like.
Able to grab the content of current folder. Better than XNC.
And work on the current folder content too. I always lost the first char when editing the content of current folder in rox
Folder up and Folder history.
Preconfigured "hot spot" locations.
OFM style

Things I don't like:

No virtual file systems, but the content is quickly shown, which is enough.
Left click = select. weird, and don't know how to disable it.
Not able to i18n?
Don't know why it is slow to move directories within the same volumn. Doing it of its own?

User comments

Gentoo is excellent!

by Marco Paganini - Jul 20th 2002 18:01:20

In my old windoze days (gone are those days) I used Windows Commander and really liked it. Gentoo is the *only* stable and fully featured FM I've seen for linux that gets close to Windows Commander. I's quite fast and absurdly configurable (which is excellent). :)

My only gripes are:

Clicking on a file/directory selects it. I'd rather have another mouse button/key to do it.
I'm so used to typing "cd dir" to go there. Gentoo could intercept these keystrokes and change the directory accordingly.
A VFS for zip/tar, etc, etc including compression support (that would really rock!)
I cannot change the fonts! :((( The GTK theme fonts are always used (that would be OK in most cases, but it's not when I use anti-aliased fonts for my main theme and gentoo uses them — sloooowness)

Other than that, it's excellent.

Re: Gentoo is excellent!

by Emil Brink - Aug 19th 2002 15:27:39

First, thanks! I'm happy you like gentoo, and even happier you took the time to post your ideas and opinions. Here are a few comments back:

Selection is more or less GTK+ standard, which is reasonable in my opinion. Selecting things from a list with the left mouse button seems, again IMO, to be more or less world standard. Having been slightly exposed to Windows Commander recently, I kind of understand what you're saying, but I would never even had the thought otherwise. Don't expect this to change…

You could bind 'c' to the focus and clear the path, unlearn the 'd' and space, and just type the path I guess… But it seems very silly to me. Of course, I never "grew up" with file managers with integrated command lines, and still find the entire idea very weird. Again, don't expect gentoo to have an integrated shell any time soon.

I agree 100% about the VFS; it would really rock. What's stopping it is mainly a) no good VFS layer known, b) no time or energy to write one myself, and c) fear for troublesome integration, hunting down all file system accesses in gentoo could take a while.

You can change the fonts for the panes and the textview in the GTK+ RC file for gentoo, ~/.gentoogtkrc. See the README.gtkrc file for details.

Re: Other tools

> I use a Worker who seems better than gentoo.

If only we could combine the rich feature set of worker with the great looks and context dependatnt menus of gentoo, we could get the perfect file manager….