A List of File Browsers

[ugm6hr]

XFE is another lightweight option: http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

Since you asked...

As minimalist options, I like:

ROX for its ability to manage an entire desktop simply, but dislike the single-click to open (too long in Windows - hence double-click comes naturally now).
Thunar for its: plugins (e.g. volman etc - allows a complete fully-featured manager if necessary); the "open terminal here" right-click menu; the "you are root warning" when browsing as root.
PCManFM for its tabs (and similarity to Thunar).

Unfortunately, they all fall down when it comes to network browsing. For this single reason, I stick with Gnome / nautilus.

PS: ROX was not replaced by Thunar. xftree was the original xfce browser - not sure what happened to it. ROX is alive and well.

[Mark76]

Ahem

Turning the single click to open option on or off in Rox is as easy as ticking a box.

Literally.

Rox can also open a terminal in a folder (`) and it has a handy shell option (!)

[ugm6hr]

Turning the single click to open option on or off in Rox is as easy as ticking a box.

Rox can also open a terminal in a folder (`) and it has a handy shell option (!)

I stand corrected

I haven't used ROX for about 2 years now, and never really experimented much with it.

Since then, when looking for a lightweight desktop more recently, I found the ROX desktop project (which intrigued me - I used RiscOS when at school on the Acorn Archimedes), but it is not available in any Ubuntu repo, so I settled on LXDE instead.

[celticbhoy]

Yeah would be nice to stick in TWiMU!

[Mark76]

Rox filer is part of the rox desktop project (as is RoxTerm ans zeroinstall-injector: Which are also in the repos).

To get the Rox desktop you just run rox with --session or -S. To have Rox actually manage your session you need to download rox-session from here. It's available as a tarball or a 0install package.