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PCManFM 0.9 Alpha is released!
bmarkus:
After a long waiting, new first public test version of next generation PCManFM was published. The official annoncement:
--- Quote ---After endless waiting, here comes the first public tarball release of next generation PCManFM.
But don’t expect too much. This is an Alpha release. :-)
Everybody loves screenshots. This is PCManFM 0.9.0 alpha running under LXDE with its desktop manager turned on.
There will be 1.0, but before it become stable enough for production use, let’s call it 0.9.
Actually, 0.9.0 is not a new version of PCManFM. It is a whole new total rewrite and redesign from scratch. So its code base is totally different from the old PCManFM 0.5.x series.
Major improvements:
1. Have GIO/GVFS support but “still keep original speed” and memory usage is still acceptable
2. Seamless remote filesystem access such as sftp and smb (provided by gvfs)
3. Trash can (provided by gvfs)
4. Much better designed configuration dialogs
5. Much better thumbnail support
6. Better wallpaper handling
7. Better drag and drop handling and also support X direct save
8. Basic auto-mount (provided by gvfs)
9. Better application chooser based on applications menu installed on the dsektop system
10. The core part is moved to a separate lib called libfm, which can be used by other programs
11. Much better structure of source code, so future hacking is easier
12. Better configurability
13. and more…
Please give it heavy tests. This will be the default file manager in next generation LXDE.
So quality and usability are extremely important.
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I just created a .tcz and it works. If there is an interest to test I will submit it. It would help developer to fix bugs.
althalus:
I see there basic automount support - Automount without HAL dependency? If so, I'm interested in playing with it.
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: althalus on February 22, 2010, 03:40:00 AM ---I see there basic automount support - Automount without HAL dependency? If so, I'm interested in playing with it.
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Automount is there and it works :) !
Kingdomcome:
I'd like to give it a try and more testers are good, please submit. Have you thought of a way to integrate into LXDE easily beside the current pcmanfm extension or will there need to be a little hacking on our part?
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Kingdomcome on February 22, 2010, 11:54:42 AM ---I'd like to give it a try and more testers are good, please submit. Have you thought of a way to integrate into LXDE easily beside the current pcmanfm extension or will there need to be a little hacking on our part?
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You can replace PCManFM 0.5 with the new 0.9 in LXDE easily and it works. Just edit the lxsession config file in ~ and replace pcmanfm with pcmanfm2 :)
When used with LXDE it appears in a normal window which can be closed, while you can't do that with the current stable. Otherwise it works. It is an alpha release.
I'm playing a bit and testing the dependency list. Will submit in few days.
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