Dolphin File Manager
(4 | 4.8)
Usability focused KDE File Manager
File Compression - File Archiving - Lightweight - Dual Pane Support
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2 years ago
Various powerful features that aren't present in other file managers, whilst remaining accessible and easy to use.
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Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. Has three view modes: Icon, Detail and it used to have Column View like in Finder (it is not available in current version due to problems with maintaibility). Supports FTP, SCP and other protocols. Highly configurable.
Dolphin supports a dual-pane view but also file browsing in tabs. It has a filter tab that allows to filter large amounts of files quickly according to an expression (e.g. *.pdf would only display the *-pdf-files in the directory displayed).
Archives of all sorts (e.g. zip, rar, gzip, 7zip) can be displayed as folders. Quick rename operations are possible with tight integration with KRename via an "Actions" contex...
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External Links
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Features
+ File Compression (8 )
+ File Archiving (5 )
+ Lightweight (4 )
+ Dual Pane Support (3 )
+ Remote File Access (2 )
+ Network protocols (2 )
+ Thumbnails (2 )
+ Built-in terminal emulation (2 )
+ Splitted view (1 )
+ Image Preview (1 )
+ KDE Plasma integration (1 )
+ File preview (1 )
+ Tabs (1 )
+ Tabbed interface (0 )
+ SSH (0 )
+ File Renaming (0 )
+ Tree view (0 )
+ Split-screen view (0 )
Application Types
File Manager (0 )
File Renaming (0 )
FTP Client (0 )
Tags
find files
File Manager -
scp client
uncompress
FTP
filter files
File Copy Utility
FTP Client -
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