[HN Gopher] Marta File Manager: Back on Track
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       Marta File Manager: Back on Track
        
       Author : iscmt
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2024-08-08 20:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (marta.sh)
 (TXT) w3m dump (marta.sh)
        
       | deepsun wrote:
       | Re. native part -- I recently explored JavaFX for desktop, and
       | found it's actually very fast, both to run and to develop in. I'd
       | say it's a joy to use, don't understand why market now prefers
       | other heavy-weight solutions like Electron. Maybe it was released
       | at a wrong time, when Sun Microsystems had troubles? Maybe it was
       | too early? Or maybe a ton of software is being written in it
       | without fanfares, I dunno.
       | 
       | The whole binding stuff is neat, feels like a predecessor to
       | Reactive Streams (which is itself is already standardized in Java
       | under java.util.concurrent).
        
         | dymk wrote:
         | Wouldn't you need to have a JVM installed to deploy a JavaFX
         | app? Is there something for bundling self-contained Java apps
         | easily?
        
           | joshmarinacci wrote:
           | The JDK now supports building standalone executables.
           | 
           | https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/tools/javapackager.htm#JSWO.
           | ..
        
             | silver_silver wrote:
             | Would this generate ~150mb images like the similarly-named
             | jpackage or is it possible to trim down the runtime?
        
             | holoduke wrote:
             | Problem is that the entire runtime is packaged. Nice for
             | large enterprise solutions, but not for small apps. And if
             | I remember correctly the memory footprint isn't nice
             | either.
        
               | microflash wrote:
               | You can trim down the runtime[1] but the tooling around
               | doing this is non-existent / unreliable. Alternatively,
               | you can generate native binaries with GraalVM[2] which
               | comes with its own baggage (license, slow compile time,
               | etc).
               | 
               | [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-
               | apps-platf...
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               | [2]: https://www.graalvm.org/
        
       | out_of_protocol wrote:
       | Let's see how it goes, still searching for a good FM on mac.
       | Regarding full-featured file managers on OSX - there's Double
       | Commander. Works well, preview on F3 is fast (and can use system
       | preview for various media files). A bit unstable though, and
       | behaves weird on network operations.
        
         | ThinkBeat wrote:
         | Pathfinder is great for my needs.
        
         | anta40 wrote:
         | Wonder if you ever tried these:
         | 
         | - QSpace (https://qspace.awehunt.com/en-us/index.html)
         | 
         | - Commander One (https://commander-one.com)
        
           | out_of_protocol wrote:
           | Commander One is kinda barebones, QSpace looks like Finder
           | plus some bonus stuff. Compared to godly Total Commander (on
           | windows), everything else is very shallow. Double Commander
           | tried to replicate it, and kinda succeeded, to an extent.
           | It's not about big shiny features, it's about all the small
           | nitpicks you do regularly.
           | 
           | Example: move file panel cursor on a file (as example, big
           | text file), press F3 to open it. Built-in preview opens first
           | page very fast even if file is 1GB+, by not loading anything
           | except the first page ;) scrolling also works without visual
           | lag even on slow HDD. Now press ESC and focus is back on a
           | window you came from and can continue navigation.
           | 
           | Something as simple as focus thing is regularly broken on oh
           | so many file managers
        
       | owaislone wrote:
       | Can anyone confirm if this is Open Source or not? Looks like it
       | used github as an issue tracker but I'm not seeing the source
       | code anywhere.
        
         | Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
         | It is not Open Source. But it is the best file manager on
         | macOS.
        
           | beanjuiceII wrote:
           | whats the catch? not open source but free?
        
             | tommy92 wrote:
             | A year or two ago when I first read about it, I saw in the
             | software faq, or maybe it was a post by its creator on HN
             | itself or reddit, that they will make it paid once it
             | reaches stable version(version 1?).
        
           | owaislone wrote:
           | Yeah it does look really nice.
        
         | lolpanda wrote:
         | what do people think about installing new software from less
         | well known companies and giving the app full access to all your
         | files? how would i convince myself that this software won't
         | upload my data in the background?
        
           | owaislone wrote:
           | I personally have a hard time trusting closed source software
           | random sources I've never heard of before. Maybe I'm just too
           | paranoid but I try not to run random software especially
           | something that has as widespread access to my data as a file-
           | manager.
        
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