[HN Gopher] Directory Opus - King of the Dual Panes
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Directory Opus - King of the Dual Panes
Author : nickt
Score : 57 points
Date : 2022-12-28 16:21 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| bityard wrote:
| I would love it if modern apps were this configurable, catering
| to wide flexibility and putting the user in control, rather than
| focusing nearly exclusively on the developer's personal design
| aesthetic du jour.
|
| Closest thing we have in the Linux world right now is KDE but
| even there I still come across things I wish were more
| configurable. Much of the time, I find someone else has made the
| same request but the devs turn it down with, "nah, that will just
| confuse new users."
| Sakos wrote:
| Directory Opus is probably the main reason why Windows remains
| my primary platform. There's just nothing out there that
| compares, particularly not on Linux.
| heywoodlh wrote:
| > Directory Opus is probably the main reason why Windows
| remains my primary platform.
|
| I'd love to hear your reasons for why Directory Opus is so
| good.
|
| I'm a Linux/MacOS/Windows (mostly Linux) user who lives
| exclusively in the command line for all my file management.
| Semaphor wrote:
| I find it far more comfortable. Dual explorer dual pane is
| the most efficient way to handle files, for me.
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| All of the pre GTK+/Qt X11 apps are highly configurable via X
| resources. The new kids came along and ruined what was a
| consistent system for managing settings.
| egypturnash wrote:
| Personally I never really got into dual-pane Directory Opus but
| Directory Opus 5 sure was a fabulous total replacement for
| Workbench, I think I used that from the time I got it until I
| finally left my Amiga for a Mac. Ever since moving to OSX my Macs
| have mostly run in column view.
|
| I wonder how lost I would be if I still had my A1200 and could
| turn it on to try and poke at my personalized DOpus5 setup. It's
| been a little more than twenty years; what was once muscle memory
| is probably just vague hints of "this used to be a thing I did".
| riedel wrote:
| Actually DOpus was the only dual pane Filemanager (maybe with
| the exception of Ghostcommander on android lately) I actually
| got used to and was really fond of. I still wonder how working
| with floppy disks (two drives and a 4MB ram extension in my
| case) was so smooth in my memory.
| stedguv wrote:
| I'm a huge fan of DOpus on Windows. Double Commander is the
| closest I've found for Linux (it has gtk and qt5 versions for
| Gnome and KDE).
| unwind wrote:
| I wrote a Linux filemanager very heavily inspired by DOpus way
| back, it's called "gentoo" [1] but I don't think it has a site
| online which is silly. It's a bit old, but quite configurable and
| I believe it's still in a few distro package repos.
|
| [1] Yes I was and am aware of the name collision with the distro.
| We exchanged emails and it was cool.
| neals wrote:
| I wonder about the financials on something like DOPUS. They've
| always been high quality, never bloated, easy on the license. Is
| that actually a valid businessmodel?
| thecrumb wrote:
| DirOpus is always the one thing I miss when I use Linux or Mac.
| Just a fantastic tool.
| riedel wrote:
| Looks like worker [1] is an actively developed clone, that very
| much looks like the original (haven't tried it yet).
|
| [1] http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/index.html
| suncore wrote:
| I loved directory opus so much on the Amiga that I eventuelly
| wrote not one but three variants of it for Linux, albeit much
| simpler. The latest one I still use and maintain and you're
| welcome to try it at https://github.com/suncore/dflynav
| daneel_w wrote:
| "DOpus" was great, though I preferred DirWork, a much lighter
| ditto which still ticked pretty much all of the boxes for me.
| mistertrotsky wrote:
| Directory Opus is the perfect example of an ultra-high-quality
| Windows application. I love it.
| Semaphor wrote:
| Been a customer since 2005, Version 8 back then, they are now on
| version 12. Considering that they only charge for major versions,
| that's pretty impressive.
|
| It's in my personal top 3 of must-have windows software (together
| with EmEditor and MediaMonkey)
| hd363gvcYf wrote:
| I really enjoyed using Opus over the years. (early to late 90s on
| various Amigas)
|
| I used it more than the Workbench stuff as it made administration
| quite easy.
| eternityforest wrote:
| Always cool to see DOpus mentioned. I've never tried it and don't
| plan to(Windows only and expensive) but it's rare to see a GUI
| app with quite that level of devoted following.
| awsmith wrote:
| For those who are fans of DOpus but don't want to use Windows or
| pull out an Amiga, I've found Worker [1] on Linux to be an
| excellent substitute. You may have to compile it yourself, but I
| switched to it years ago and haven't looked back since.
|
| [1] http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/
| fraXis wrote:
| I used to use Directory Opus when I had an Amiga. :-)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Opus
| c_prompt wrote:
| For many years, DO was my only explorer. It was perfect in every
| way.
|
| Then XYplorer [1] offered a pro license freebee (looks like back
| in 2019 [2]) and I gave it a try. I'm still using that same
| version (15.90) from so many years ago. Never looked back.
|
| [1] https://www.xyplorer.com/
|
| [2] https://www.xyplorer.com/freezer.php
| LunarAurora wrote:
| I'm also more familiar with the excellent XYplorer.
|
| I could not find any in depth comparison with Directory Opus.
| These two have accumulated so much features over the years, it
| became a kind of expertise to know them in detail.
|
| The chance of a dual-expert willing to clearly expand on his
| experience is small. I wish more tech journalism was on this
| level. Instead, the verge had (at least) 4 articles in 2022 on
| windows explorer getting... tabs.
| fraXis wrote:
| I love XYplorer!
|
| And to this day it's still written in VB6. :-)
|
| https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=VB6
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