[SC.LUG] Transferring to linux - and File Managers

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:57:03PM +0100, Richard Smedley wrote:

> The two most likely alternatives for graphical file manager are 
> rox-filer and Konqueror. Which you will prefer is really a 
> personal matter, however Konqueror works as a web browser
> as well, and can do things like drag-copy files between
> two remote servers over ssh, using fish://

With Nautilus it’s “ssh://”.  Nautilus won’t do your web browsing for
you though, leave that to Epiphany, Firefox, etc :)

If using KDE, also look out for Dolphin (or D3lphin for KDE3) which
attempts to do the Right Thing™ (IMO) and optimise its behaviour for
just being a file manager.

Simon
-- 
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