Not a fan of the Midnight Commander-style of UI, but I'll give it a try since anything has got to be better than the mess that is the Finder these days .. I still don't understand why Apple can't push Finder to be a more modern interface for the system without completely screwing it up .. so much to improve, but yet they are ignoring it in favour of sandboxes and "nobody knows what a filesystem is" policies that make us all dumber.<p>One of my pet peeves with the Finder is that it still can't auto-layout the content to fit in the window - take a list view, open a folder .. and marvel at the fact that its the 21st century, but yet this list view still isn't capable of rendering itself for minimal-fit constraints. (I have to do it manually.) This is very frustrating, and I'd love to know of a solution ..
This is eerily similar to fman, which was posted here a few weeks ago<p><a href="https://fman.io/" rel="nofollow">https://fman.io/</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764060" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764060</a>
Just want to point people to <a href="http://www.binarynights.com/forklift/" rel="nofollow">http://www.binarynights.com/forklift/</a><p>It's not free, but they've just releaseed a new major version, and it's the first time I've found a file manager I'm happy with on Mac.
Consider doing an animation like the Sublime Text website: <a href="https://www.sublimetext.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sublimetext.com/</a><p>Would make the homepage more engaging and demonstrate value quicker.
Should "minimalistic" be a goal for a file manager though? Total Commander is great <i>because</i> it's not minimalistic and allows the user to customise it in any way you want. I think that's what users who want more than just Finder or Explorer are looking for. It's the same for text editors, nobody would use a minimalistic one, or they'd just use Notepad.
I'd recommend putting some more details on the homepage, or at least linking to the introductory blog post which has pertinent information like your plans about pricing (for everyone else, it will be paid). Maybe even list some of the other features like plugins would help sell it too.
Looks like a good start.
I would love to get a full replacement of TotalCommander for macOS. I've tried a few and I'm currently using Forklift 3.
There's still some features that I'm missing in Forklift so I'll keep an eye on this project.
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.<p>From <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html</a> which I feel is applicable here, since it's invite only alpha.
This product doesn't look to me to be compelling enough to switch away from Finder and ranger. I use Finder when I want to browse pictures or other rich media and ranger when I just want to browse source code and other text files from the command line using vim-like hotkeys.
I'm very interested in getting started with this! One question, is there a way to change the key binding for switching active panes? Right now it seems like the only option is to use Tab and is the only key binding that doesn't appear to be configurable.
It looks interesting from the docs but on an average day I would have closed the page without going to the docs section. Some sort of video or animation to boast why it will help me reclaim productivity is all I need to press download and start using it.
I really like XtraFinder[1] and pretty much can't do without it. I wish it worked w/o that very serious (potentially dangerous) workaround but sadly it doesn't and after OSX upgrade broke it it is not as stable it used to be.<p>Where does Marta fit in among file managers (esp very serious ones) and Finder plugins for OSX? Are other features (for e.g. FTP or so? Though it says minimal) are planned or already exist?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/" rel="nofollow">https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/</a>
Just an FYI I wouldn't have realized the Mad Mimi subscription confirmation email was related until I tried another email address and saw the same message.
> give money to a company with crappy software<p>> spend your time fixing their problems so they can continue making money with crapy software<p>someone needs some Stallman love
I think GUI tools like this should use every opportunity to gently introduce users to the conventions used in lower-level tools that they may eventually decide to use. For example, in the top of each pane in the screenshot there is a directory open with a path listed. Perhaps show it with typical path separators (/) so the user gets used to it.