^ Via multi-panel plugins.
^ Column view is called Details view in Windows Explorer
^Windows 7 introduces a Content view which shows details as well as thumbnails
Twin-panel file managers have obligatory connected panels where action in one panel results in reaction in the second. Konqueror supports multiple panels divided horizontally, vertically or both, but these panels do not act as twin panels by default (the user has to mark the panels he wants to act as twin-panels).
Network protocols
Information on what networking protocols the file managers support. Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the Mac OS X Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files, and Konqueror either uses ordinary file system calls or KIO slave calls to access remote files. Some functions, such as browsing for servers or shares, might be implemented in the file manager even if most functions are implemented below the file manager.
^ Support is provided by the underlying operating system. ^ NFS support in these file managers requires the installation of Services for UNIX. ^ NFS support requires either the freely downloadable Windows Services for UNIX or is built-in starting with Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions as Subsystem for Unix-based applications (SUA). ^ FTP support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or Webdrive. ^ SSH support in these file managers requires the installation of SftpDrive or Webdrive. ^ WebDAV support in these file managers requires the installation of NetDrive or Webdrive. ^ WebDAV is supported via Microsoft Windows' built-in Network Places/Mapped Drive functionality. ^ Support is provided via a free 3rd-party plugin.
File features
Information on what basic file features the file managers support.
Information on what file searching features the file managers support. RegExp include the possibilities of nested Boolean searches, thus implicitly all file managers supporting RegExp search support also Boolean searches.
Template:RefunIn an early alpha version 1.80 as of Feb 2008 Template:RefunIn beta version v2.0.136 as of Dec 16 2008 Template:RefunVia thumbnail column Template:RefunUser can change toolbar icons Template:RefunFile and folder icons customizable on OS level and via folder properties Template:RefunMain change in Total Commander 7.50 Template:RefunUnicode support depends on Mac OS version. Mac OS X's Finder includes full Unicode support, while Mac OS 8 and earlier does not. May be supported in >=8.1 and <=9.2 if using unicode filesystems.
↑ 2.02.1Directory Opus 5.82 Magellan II is the last commercial version available for Amiga, and an unregistered (but fully functional) version has been released with the AmiKit distribution. Directory Opus 4 is maintained separately under an open source license.
Details + Thumbnails views and Favs-panel (bottom left)
↑Content Dependent (System) refers to a system which attempts to detect the dominant type of files in that folder and then select the most appropriate view mode for you automatically.
↑Requires an additional licence (purchased separately)
↑Files matching certain user defined criteria (e.g. name pattern, attributes) are displayed in another color. Example: Since Windows 2000, the UI guide requires NTFS compressed files and folders displayed in blue, whereas uncompressed ones are black.
↑Mass Rename is a feature to rename big amounts of files in a convenient way and including a preview, see File:Servant Salamander 2.5RC batch renamer screenshot.pngExample screenshot of mass rename the screenshot for an example. Common options are subdirectory inclusion, wildcards, manual mode (offering to edit names as text files in editors), counters, time related fields (eg. "date created"), path related fields (eg. "parent directory name"), regular expressions etc.
↑Altap Salamander offers to show only selected files and hide unselected ones, also in picture viewer etc. For selection, the usual wildcards and add/subtract/intersect with 1...N stored selections are offered.
↑ACL is dependent on the type and version of file- and operating system. Altap Salamander offers quick access to owner, auditing and permission settings in WinXP with NTFS 5.
↑ 30.030.130.230.330.4The encryption feature in Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003 is in fact a user-transparent filesystem-level encryption feature for NTFS. The file manager merely enables or disables it.
↑ Only picture and PDF previews are supported by Explorer++.
↑ Supported via OS support up to Windows XP only. Document scraps are not supported in Windows Vista and later.
↑Explorer++ supports ACLs via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only.
↑ 34.034.1Needs KRename, an application that integrates into Konqueror and Krusader.
↑Only text which is dragged from another program and dropped into a folder in Nautilus can be pasted as a new file.
↑Path Finder apparently integrates with Knox, an encryption utility.
↑ Supported up to Windows XP only. Document scraps are not supported in Windows Vista and later.
↑Via system File Properties dialog, NTFS-only. Must be enabled manually in Windows versions prior to Server 2003.
↑Save searches: Ability to save templates containing all search settings (file filter, metadata requirements etc.). Results of saves searches are always live, so not the results but the search conditions are saved.
↑Also known as iterative searches. For example the ability to finish one search and then perform a new search a) only within these results (intersect the two result sets / the requirements of both searches have to be met), 2) adding to these results (combine both result sets to a bigger set) or 3) subtract from those results (original result set reduced by intersection of result sets).
↑Altap Salamander Search offers RegExp for defining the file content.
