u/stackpointer101

Any chance COSMIC files might get a few features from Dolphin?

I reaaally like the way COSMIC is developing, looks really promising to me.

But with files I have the same issue I have with Gnomes file manager. It lacks two features I can not live with out (well, you know what I mean...):

- An option to make it remember list or grid view on a per directory basis. Files drives me nuts with always using the same setting for all directories xD Dolphin even has an option to automatically use grid view for folders with mainly images, which is also pretty cool.

- A side panel, that is always there and shows lots of additional information of the currently selected file (like all the exif data for photos, codec infos for music and video files, and so on). Especially aperture, shutter speed, focal length and ISO are values I really want to see all the time.

KDE is awesome, but I would definitely prefer the sleek look of Gnome or COSMIC. But Dolphin is single-handedly keeping me on KDE for now. Do you think there is any chance COSMIC files will go into this direction? As far as I read there is basically no chance in hell that Gnome will go there, but maybe Cosmic...? Maybe...? *bigeyes*

Me being an absolute newbie with linux probably means I will adept a little to different habits in the future, but we will see.

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u/stackpointer101 — 6 days ago