Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source
Open source Qmmander is a dual-pane, tabbed Explorer alternative
by Lee Mathews Nov 3rd 2009 at 3:00PM
Qmmander is a lightweight, portable alternative. Built on Nokia's QT framework, Qmmander (like many Explorer replacements) adds tab support and split-window views to power up your file management tasks.
File browsing is snappy, even when exploring shares on a local area network. Qmmander's panes can be displayed horizontally or vertically, and an extensive set of hotkeys is built-in for those who prefer mouse-free computing. Qmmander's interface isn't overly-complicated and it still sports a nice set of features in a small, portable package.
However, one feature advanced users might find lacking in Qmmander is the ability to bookmark or favorite folders. It would certainly make for a thoughtful addition. I usually work in the same set of 5 or 6 folders, so being able to load them quickly and easily would be a real time-saver.
Qmmander is free, portable, open source, and runs on Windows. It's packed as a 7z archive, so you'll need an app (like 7-zip) to extract it.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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mxxcon said 3:11PM on 11-03-2009
an interesting attempt at Total Commander for windows and Krusader on linux :)
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der_tuxman said 4:16PM on 11-03-2009
If tabs are the only really useful feature here, you'd better try QTTabBar. However, it is IMHO not really necessary to develop /another/ tabbed file manager for Windows.
(I prefer xplorer², but it is all a matter of taste, I guess...)
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der_tuxman said 4:19PM on 11-03-2009
(BTW: I never used two panels, IMHO multi-tabbing is more than enough for useful work...)
Loois said 7:12PM on 11-03-2009
Does this have an option to replace itself as default? I find xplorer2 has this, but it doesn't seem to replace 100%
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Tech-Mike said 7:39PM on 11-03-2009
It'll be worth trying out once it hits beta....its still in alpha development.
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jfjb said 1:55PM on 11-07-2009
Q-dir, sir, Q-dir
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