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IgnorantGuru / spacefm

SpaceFM File Manager
http://ignorantguru.github.com/spacefm/
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Can SpaceFM Have Icons on Folders In the $HOME Directory? #798

Open TuxerIT opened 2 years ago

TuxerIT commented 2 years ago

Can SpaceFM have icons for the HOME folders like you typically see displayed in Natilus, Dolphin, PCManFM, Thunar, etc..?

I thought since SpaceFM was developed as an alternative to PCManFM, it would have this ability, but all I end up with is just plain looking folders in the HOME directory. I have never been able to figure out if this is possible with SpaceFM.

Here's a screen shot of what I am explaining, notice the folders have small icons on them, a Star, Heart, Lock, WiFi, Headphones, etc...

Can SpaceFM be made to display the icons on the HOME folders like a lot of file managers do?

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ncmprhnsbl commented 2 years ago

short answer: no see IgnorantGuru's answer here: https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm/issues/152

TuxerIT commented 2 years ago

IgnorantGuru replies;

My concern with this is the overhead - having to look within each directory and read a file for the icon. In KDE this kind of bloat and lag is normal, but spacefm is designed to be light and fast. It also doesn't use an external vfs that caches such things. Of course it could be made optional.

I've personally used, Natilus, Nemo, Dolphin, PCManFM, Thunar, and I have never experienced any lag or speed issues with them.

Bloated code in some of these I can understand, but speed and lag problems, I've never seen. The only reason none of these file managers ever appealed to me, is for lack of Multi Pane windows.

I'd assume that PCManFM is the next step above SpaceFM in terms of just a little more bloat, and it has the ability to render the icons on the HOME, and there is no drop in speed or performance.

This is really sad we can't do this in SpaceFM.

I really would of hoped someone picked this project up and kept developing it, really sad it's dead.

ghost commented 2 years ago

@TuxerIT I moved from SpaceFM, i used it since my #!crunchbang time, currently i'm using Nautilus, indeed it is a sad that it stoped or put in dorm status. I am writing now that user skidoo at antix forums has forked it and called zzzfm also another newly zzzfm has come to the light. The latter is the most newest from what i saw.

AntiX have a support forum about those forks. Take a look about them if you are interested.

ryanmusante commented 1 year ago

Too many forks of existing file managers, it's insane.