Hello everyone. I am switching to Bluefin and I have noticed that on Flathub there are not many “advanced” file managers, such as Double Commander I have been using until now. To be more specific I mean file managers with features like double (multiple) panels, keyboard controls, (S)FTP, and similar. One of the features I miss the most are the previews and Gnome-sushi apparently does not work on Fedora Silveblue and its derivatives. Currently, I am having a look at terminal file managers, rather than using file manager in a toolbox. Considering the specific properties with UBlue and its derivatives (Brew, immutability, etc.), I would like to ask for recommendations. Particularly, if there are any file managers that work well with Bluefin defaults. For example, I would like keep compatibility with Ptyxis terminal, rather than switch to something like Kitty for image in terminal support. Thanks in advance for any advice.
EDIT:
I am going to try superfile, but any recommendations still welcome.
Gnome sushi in Bluefin default installation, but I still need to find what is causing problems with it on my PC. I will update this post once I find the solution to the Gnome sushi problem, in case anyone has similar problem.
Thank you, so much. It is good to know that it works on Bluefin. superfile was on my shortlist, but the comments about is dependencies were a bit discouraging.
Sorry for posting incorrect information, I newer really used Gnome sushi that much and when I tried it it did not work and some outdated discussions online suggested so.
Only now I noticed, that the default way of starting it via space works only on local files and does not work on files on external media. There must be some problem, because systems journal is getting
JS Error: Failed to query default handler for file:///...
Thank you for all the recommendations, I will give try to them as well.
As for the image previews, what seems to be the issue is that Ptyxis as a terminal based on VTE does not support it (Sixel implementation tracker (#253) · Issues · GNOME / vte · GitLab). If I understand correctly the usual fallback is the ueberzugpp, I tried installing it via brew, but its build fails on some issues with cli11 dependencies. I still need to read more about brew in order to be able to fix this.
Sorry, if I am going slightly out of topic, but I still see benefit from the discussion to new users of Bluefin.
Also I am still somewhat new to Ptyxis, before Bluefin I used Terminology which has image and even video previews built-in.
We currently default to ptyxis and like you saw it does not support sixel, undercurl, or ligatures. What is does support is podman containers in an extremely fluid manner and has a graphical configuration.
If you want those more advanced features you can look at other terminals. One of them that supports everything is wezterm and can be configured with Lua to mimic the container integration. It is available in flathub, but layering it is preferable.
I like vifm that brings vim text editor logic to file manager. Not suitable for everyone, but for those that use vim (like me) it is god send file manager.
I’ve always wished Linux had something like xplorer2 on Windows. The closest I’ve come, and it’s pretty close, is Krusader, which is a QT app but runs on Gnome too.
Unfortunately doesn’t have a Flatpak, but installs in a Distrobox container fine.
For GUI file manager I use Dolphin that is available as flatpak. This is KDE application but also works on Gnome (and probably others). I use Dolphin as main file manager on Microsoft Windows (yes it is multi-platform program).
What I like:
single pane or dual pane (just click “Split” button on top right and secondary pane is displayed)
new tab (or new tabs) and in new tab also possible to have dual pane
remembers current folders in each each pane after program is closed down and reopened
search files by name (or context) in current folder with CTRL+I
search files by name (or context) in current folder and all of the subfolders with CTRL+F
