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Double Commander mentions (20)

• The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)

  Well yeah, I mean no one forces you to use Explorer for file management under Windows. I'm an old-time Norton Commander user, and when Windows came around I switched to Total Commander. There are open-source alternatives too, even cross-platform ones, like this one: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/. That being said, no one forces you to use Windows either - except maybe your employer or the software... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Creating a 'Proper Nouns' List

  Double Commander. Search Replace Multiple files. Source: 5 months ago

• Total Commander

  I've been looking for a Linux alternative ever since I mostly switched away from Windows a few years ago, and so far this one is the best FOSS alternative I found: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ - it's even written in Pascal, same as TC. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Total Commander

  Very useful, I bought it years ago and used it on Windows. I've been using only Linux for about 10 years now, but I'd like to use Total Commander on Linux. Double Commander is open source, cross-platform and written with Lazarus / FPC : https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ But ... I am not able not to use Midnight Commander ... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Far Manager: files and archives in Windows

  Try free clone of TC, Double Commander: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Shelf (Maui Applications) mentions (19)

• 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

  Qt is probably closest among cross platform frameworks, but comes with some thorns that can be difficult to ignore and contribute to that “hard to use” sentiment. The way Qt Widgets is for practical purposes usable only with C++ or Python is one such thorn, as is its use of custom types like QString. Both increase friction significantly as many devs aren’t able to use their preferred language and can’t use the... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Why is GUI programming so hard?

  Flexbox support in QML[1]. Plus, there are some wrappers that make seamless transition between desktop and mobile view like MauiKit[1] and Kirigami[2]. I don't think they're perfect or that they are doing it correctly, but they're onto something with their main idea. [1] https://mauikit.org/ [2] https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami//. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Packagecloud customer success story: Nitrux

  Nitrux provides an eponymous Linux desktop distribution based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes the NX Desktop built on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications. Source: about 1 year ago

• It's all just Chromium

  There's MauiKit which seems to support everything and has a similar name. I wonder if they're related. Source: about 1 year ago

• If you were Microsoft and were in charge of branding for .NET Core and all future versions: what would you have done to rebrand .NET during the switchover?

  For real, of all the acronyms they could have chosen, they chose one that's already the name of a UI framework. Source: over 1 year ago