I'm now an Ubuntu user for several years but a friend of mine has Kubuntu installed and although I'm no fan of KDE i really liked the file Browser "Dolphin". Especially the Mac OSX like "columns design" with the preview at the right side. Like here .
Are there any simple solutions to get this design in nautilus - my search wasn't very productive till now. Usually there is no alternative to installing a new file broswer, but I'm not sure if its worth it.
Does anybody use Dolphin or anything similar under Ubuntu and could share some thoughts?
Greets.
11 Answer
There is a hack for thunar, that does this. , haven't found anything for nautilus. Download the file in the link, then un archive it to get the folder thunar-ui-prototype-with-colums-view, open the folder, find Main.py and right click on it >go to properties >Permissions >select "Allow this file to run as a program" >Then close out and double click Main.py this will run thunar with the column view, granted it's buggy, but I think this layout is incredebly useful, and wonder why other viewers don't have the option.
Also There is Marlin, but it is in Alpha stage(expermintal), but it has the view, and works better than the thunar hack.
To install put each line in terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install marlin
