GNOME Commander is a 'two pane' graphical file manager for GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

. It is built using the GTK+

GTK+

GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...

 toolkit and GnomeVFS. GNOME Commander aims to fulfil the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands.

Features

• Gnome MIME
  MIME
  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...
  
   types.
• FTP
  File Transfer Protocol
  File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...
  
  , SFTP
  SSH file transfer protocol
  In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream...
  
   and WebDAV
  WebDAV
  Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers...
  
   support.
• SAMBA access.
• Right click mouse menu.
• User defined context menu.
• Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting.
• Latest accessed folder history.
• Folder bookmarks.
• Plugin support.
• Python
  Python (programming language)
  Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
  
   scripting.
• Fast file viewer for text and images.
• Meta data support for Exif, IPTC
  IPTC Information Interchange Model
  The Information Interchange Model is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types...
  
  , ID3
  ID3
  ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself....
  
  , Vorbis
  Vorbis
  Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
  
  , FLAC
  FLAC
  FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...
  
  , APE, PDF, OLE2
  Object Linking and Embedding
  Object Linking and Embedding is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements...
  
   and ODF
  OpenDocument
  The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents....
  
   tags.
• Tools for advanced renaming of files, searching, quick file name search in current dir, symlinking, comparing directories.
• User defined keyboard shortcuts
• Integrated command line.
• Support for over 40 languages.

User interface

The user interface

User interface

The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...

 is based on Norton Commander

Norton Commander

Norton Commander was a prototypical orthodox file manager , written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing . NC is a file manager which provides a text user interface on top of DOS. It was officially produced by Symantec between 1986 and 1998...

. The idea is to manipulate files from active to inactive panel or within active panel. Only the keyboard is required to do this, which makes the process much faster. Using the mouse is still an option.

Platforms

GNOME Commander is developed for the Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 platform. Packages are available on Ubuntu and are regularly updated.

External links

• GNOME Commander homepage
• GNOME Commander sources at ftp.gnome.org
• Debian packages
• Ubuntu packages
• Mandriva packages
• [ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sbrabec/gnome-commander/ SuSe packages]
• Fedora packages
• Gentoo ebuild for GNOME Commander