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I still don't…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"13922954","weberc2","My grievances include that it's only sometimes possible to enter in a custom path (e.g., \u002FUsers\u002Ffoo\u002Fbar\u002Fbaz) and that the home directory rarely shows up in the left side bar,…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"13921579","laurent123456","Should \"minimalistic\" be a goal for a file manager though? Total Commander is great because it's not minimalistic and allows the user to customise it in any way you want. I think…",{"value":66,"source":51,"evidence":67},"macOS users wanting a Finder alternative",[68,69],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"13922013","husted","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…",{"value":74,"source":75,"evidence":76},"Paid after alpha","commenter",[77],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"13921838","dorian-graph","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…",[82,92],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Swift","maker",[86,89],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},"13923176","Yes, it's Cocoa\u002FSwift.",{"id":90,"by":11,"text":91},"13921616","Just Cocoa (Swift). Marta is a completely native macOS application.",{"value":93,"source":84,"evidence":94},"Cocoa",[95,96],{"id":87,"by":11,"text":88},{"id":90,"by":11,"text":91},"unknown","beta",{"praise":100,"objections":112,"requests":149,"questions":168,"alternatives":184},[101,105],{"value":102,"source":75,"evidence":103},"Looks like a good start; wanted a Total Commander replacement for macOS",[104],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"value":106,"source":75,"evidence":107},"Keybindings borrowed from mc are appealing",[108],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"13922007","weitzj","Nice. mc keybindings",[113,131,142],{"value":114,"source":75,"evidence":115},"Closed alpha requires email signup, which users dislike",[116,120,124,128],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"13921567","smarx007","Wanted to try it, but no, I am not going to sign up for a super exclusive alpha that requires my email address.",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"13922024","_joel","Agreed, this complete puts me off too. Was initially interested but that evaporates with having to register.",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"13923846","aphextron",">I could send you the direct link via Twitter DMs (yanex_ru) or via an email (me@yanex[at]org). You need to freely provide the download. No one is going to give you their email…",{"id":129,"by":118,"text":130},"13935712","No, that's actually an indicator. If the DMG is email-walled, how much data the app will track once installed on my machine?",{"value":132,"source":75,"evidence":133},"Not ready for Show HN; too little functionality",[134,138],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"13924217","diggan","> 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. From https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fshowhn.html which I…",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"13922037","xmichael99","Not really alpha ready in my opinion. Needs quite a bit of work to be able to do anything.",{"value":143,"source":75,"evidence":144},"Pane switching key not configurable",[145],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"13921890","hooksfordays","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…",[150,155,161],{"value":151,"source":75,"evidence":152},"Make it freely downloadable without email",[153,154],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},{"id":129,"by":118,"text":130},{"value":156,"source":75,"evidence":157},"Homebrew Cask distribution",[158],{"id":159,"by":55,"text":160},"13921660","Going to try to get it into Home-brew?",{"value":162,"source":75,"evidence":163},"Use system font instead of Helvetica",[164],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"13921721","pavlov","A tiny niggle: consider using the Apple-defined system font instead of Helvetica? Many Mac users are sticklers about this.",[169,180],{"value":170,"source":75,"evidence":171},"How does it differ from fman, ForkLift, XtraFinder?",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"13921631","jmuguy","This is eerily similar to fman, which was posted here a few weeks ago https:\u002F\u002Ffman.io\u002F https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=13764060",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"13923793","balladeer","I really like XtraFinder[1] and pretty much can't do without it. I wish it worked w\u002Fo that very serious (potentially dangerous) workaround but sadly it doesn't and after OSX…",{"value":181,"source":75,"evidence":182},"Is FTP support planned?",[183],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},[185,189,196,203,210],{"value":186,"source":75,"evidence":187},"fman",[188],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},{"value":190,"source":75,"evidence":191},"ForkLift",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"13922374","nicoburns","Just want to point people to http:\u002F\u002Fwww.binarynights.com\u002Fforklift\u002F It's not free, but they've just releaseed a new major version, and it's the first time I've found a file…",{"value":197,"source":75,"evidence":198},"Path Finder",[199],{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"13922351","pax","Disk Order (http:\u002F\u002Flikemac.ru) was great, now abandonware (last updated 2013) Next best thing I could find was Path Finder (http:\u002F\u002Fcocoatech.com)",{"value":204,"source":75,"evidence":205},"Nimble Commander",[206],{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"13922330","vbezhenar","There's similar program: Nimble Commander, I use it for a long time and I like it.",{"value":211,"source":75,"evidence":212},"Finder",[213],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"comments":215,"answered":216,"key":217},21,9,[218,221,222],{"id":219,"text":220},"13921683","fman is a cross-platform application made with PyQt. 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