romgrk/mariner

Mariner is a file manager application for the GNOME Linux desktop, built as an alternative to the default file manager called GNOME Files, also known as Nautilus. It uses the same visual building blocks as GNOME Files, so it looks and behaves the same way people already expect, with the same sidebar, tabs, and keyboard shortcuts, but it adds a long list of features that users of GNOME Files have asked for over the years. One of the main additions is type ahead navigation: as soon as you start typing, Mariner jumps to the matching file or folder, and the matching is forgiving of typos, so a slightly misspelled name still finds the right result. Another major feature is a dual pane split view, letting you see two folders side by side in one window so you can drag, copy, or move files between them without opening a second window. Pressing the space bar on a file opens an instant preview for images, video, audio, text, and code, and a command palette, opened with a keyboard shortcut, lets you jump to any folder you have visited before or run a command, similar to how a code editor's command palette works. Mariner also includes a way to run shell commands directly from its location bar, with the output shown in a panel at the bottom of the window, and a full text search feature that can search inside files using the ripgrep search tool, without needing to build a search index first. A built in disk usage tool shows what is taking up space on a drive as a colored sunburst chart you can click through. Files can also be given colored tags from the right click menu, and those tags are stored using a standard file attribute so they stay attached to files even when copied and remain compatible with a similar tagging feature in the KDE desktop's file manager, Dolphin. Other differences from GNOME Files include custom right click actions that users can define in a small configuration file, an operations queue that shows each file copy or move separately with its own progress, batch renaming with a live preview, and built in support for extracting and creating zip, tar, and other archive formats. The project is currently in beta and is written mainly in TypeScript. The full README is longer than what was shown.