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In what way does running in a terminal benefit an application?
1. Speed. Krusader or any other attempt for a fully graphical OFM is pig disgustingly slow.
2. Enforced usability. Any graphical OFM I've seen is pestered with icons, toolbars and worthless bullshit wasting space and making it look like a Hong Kong street. You cannot add useless bullshit to the application if you can only use text.
3. Terminal support. It's easy to do in text, hard to do with a graphical OFM. IIRC Krusader almost got it right, but you can't use both the panels and the command line at once and have to switch with the mouse which is, again, pig disgusting.
limiting it to the use of fixed-pitch fonts
You mean the proper font that makes everything look right and filenames line up nicely?
eliminating the possiblity of previewing images in the Quick View pane?
A matter of personal taste, but I don't need that feature, nor any kind of expensive preview. If I want to see a file I'll open the appropriate full-screen minimalistic program for that. At the very best I'll accept some libaa voodoo and w3m rendering for HTML, as in Midnight Commander (I also integrated that into FAR Manager).