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Queue file transfers
Moving around large amount of data from external HDDs or network shares takes some time. Would be a great enhancement to be able to queue up the copy/move operations, so they don't happen at the same time (causing disk fragmentation and slowing down the actual transfer progress).
In Total Commander this is solved by pressing "F2" at the Copy/Move dialogue, which puts the operation into the queue, where the user can modify the order or remove operations before they have finished.
In ForkLift (OSX file manager), the transfer queue is the default behavior: "manage copy operations with global conflict management and file reordering"
I would dare to say that it would be better to queue the operations by default and give the possibility to run it concurrently for who needs that feature.
This would make this software smarter than any other that I saw.
I read in the blog of another file manager that two parallel file operations often take more than twice as long as they would individually. So the best possible implementation would probably be what @kszcode suggested.
I believe this issue should be a part of #46. Do you both agree?
The queue is one of the most used feature for me to not using the standard file managers of the OS (finder or explorer).
Bye the way, when I saw first the issues here, all features of total commander, so to make it short: simply copy 80% of TC. 😀
Just joking, but Total Commander is the gold-standard of file-managers with many useful features. I think, it would be very helpful and inspiring for you to meet the old wise man of Total Commander, Christian Ghisler in person for a long conversation.
fman takes a lot of inspiration from TC. I would love to have a conversation with Christian Ghisler, but I doubt he'd agree to it given that I'm a competitor ;-)
I don't know him personally, but he is mostly in the forum active. Total Commander is THE standard in alternative-filemanagers and I presume that he has not this competition-thinking. And if he would be a born-businessman, he would not sell lifetime-licenses for 24€. 😌
For my view, your approach is a different. Fman is for me a more unusual experimental filemanager without wanting to be the swiss-knife of file handling.
I would imagine that as the market incumbent on Windows, TC is doing pretty well financially ;) But you are right that lifetime licenses are not a good idea. It simply doesn't align the interests of the developer and the user. With a lifetime value, the user bets that the developer will keep making updates forever, and the developer bets that he will produce the minimum number of updates possible. Not the best setup imho.
Lifetime license with TC is not a surprise. TC is basically feature ready since the early 2000s, and there hasn't been any major innovation in the last 15 years or so.