Re: PCManFM, a "liteweight" replacement for nautilus

["洪任諭PCMan" <pcman tw gmail com>]

Hello everyone,
Here I want to announce the latest version 0.3.0 of my project, PCMan
File Manager.
Official website:  http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/
GnomeFiles: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/PCMan+File+Manager

This is an extremely fast file manager featuring lightweight and
tabbed browsing.
It's simple, fast, easy-to-use, standards-compliant, resource-careful,
and fits the "minimal requirements" to be a file manager.

The interface looks clean and nice, here are some screenshots:
http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Shortcut keys and interface design are compatible with Firefox, which
are familiar to most of the people.

Quite different from nautilus, which is absolutely great, our goal is
not to make such a powerful file manager, but a "good enough" one, and
keep it as simple as possible.
Nautilus is undoubtedly one of the best file managers, but it's too
heavy, and doesn't suitable for older machines, or some more
restricted environments.
So, PCMan File Manager can be a "lightweight" replacement for those
who don't need that much functionality, but need speed and low memory
usage while preserving most of the essential parts at the same time.
PCManFM is not simplified from nautilus, but totally written from scratch.

It's fast, lightweight, clean, easy-to-use, while containing most
things you'll need.
Please, give it a try!
Any feedback or patch files will be highly-appreciated.
Thank you all.

0.3.0 what's new:
1. Icon sizes and icon theme can be changed and correctly applied.
2. Thumbnail display of image files is correcly implemented according
to the spec on freedesktop.org.
3. Experimental HAL support is added, but it's still buggy now, so
this configure option is turned off by default. (Will be fix in future
release)
4. The internal "infrastructure" of PCMan File Manager was totally
re-designed and re-implemented.
5. GTK+ 2.6 can be supported now.
6. Sorting of files is "greatly improved".
7. Dir tree on the left side was re-design, and have known bugs fixed.
8. Add Compress/Extract menu items calling external archiving tools to
popup menu of files.
9. Add "Open Current Folder as Root" to Tool menu.
10.Imrove standard complicance and correctness.
11. Better handling to non-UTF-8 encoded filenames.
12. Performance is slightly improved.
13. Update cache when mime-database on the system has been changed.
14. Fix clipboard problems reported by Ruediger Arp.
15. When users choose a custom app to open selected files, add this
app to the available actions for the mime-type of the selected file.
16. Fix a segmentation fault on opening popup menus.
17. Process space characters in terminal application settins.
18. Add popup menu and middle click supprt for side pane.
19. Lots of major and minor bug fixes.
20. Improve compatibility.

Have a nice day and happy hacking!