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Thunar 0.9.0 released

2007-12-02 [Direct Link]

Today Thunar 0.9.0 and libexo 0.3.4 were released as part of Xfce 4.4.2. These are bugfix releases and do not include many new features. The ChangeLog files in the source tarballs contain the complete list of changes.

Bugfixes and improvements

Download

Both Thunar 0.9.0 and libexo 0.3.4 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4.2 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar). You can also use the bugtracker to request new features.





Thunar 0.8.0 released

2007-01-21 [Direct Link]

Today the final releases of Thunar (0.8.0) and libexo (0.3.2) were released as part of Xfce 4.4.0. The final releases include several bug fixes and a bunch of new features. The ChangeLog files in the source tarballs contain the complete list of changes.

It was initially planned to release Thunar 1.0.0 as part of Xfce 4.4.0, however not all items from the 1.0.0 roadmap are completed yet, and so the version was set to 0.8.0 rather than 1.0.0.

Trash

The trash implementation, which was introduced with the first release candidate of Thunar (0.4.0 RC1), was initially limited to the home trash, and therefore not a fully compliant implementation of the Desktop Trash Can Specification. This release finally adds support for the so-called trashing to "top directories", which means that files can be trashed into special folders on removable volumes to avoid costly copying to the home folder. Xfce is thereby the second desktop which fully complies with the Desktop Trash Can Specification.

Removable Drives and Media

The management of removable drives and media was further improved in various ways. Most importantly, Thunar does no longer depend on external utilities such as pmount or gnome-mount to mount, unmount and eject volumes. Instead the new exo-mount utility is used. This step was necessary because pmount and gnome-mount do not work reliable and caused trouble mounting certain volumes.

Removable Drives and Media

In addition this release introduces support for automatic management of removable drives and media using the Thunar Volume Manager. This Thunar addon lets the user configure several actions which should be performed whenever a new drive is connected or a new media is inserted. It is designed to look and behave similar to the GNOME solution, gnome-volume-manager, but does not required an additional daemon process to be running in the user's desktop session. It is thereby a very lightweight solution.

Floppy in the side pane

Further on, there is now support for a wide range of removable volumes. For example, Users with internal floppy disk drives will notice the new Floppy Drive entry in the side pane and on the desktop. Besides that memory cards are recognized properly now and generic support for all other kinds of removable disk drives was added. For most CD-ROM drives it is now possible to simply press the Eject-button on the drive and Thunar will automatically unmount and eject the disc (however not all CD-ROM drives are supported by Linux/HAL here).

Send to removable volume

All recognized removable volumes will also be added to the Send To menu and will be automatically mounted when the user sends files to the volume.

Thumbnails

Additional thumbnailers - small utilities used by Thunar to generate previews for certain file types - can now be registered via .desktop files and will be automatically used to generate thumbnails for all file types which the thumbnailer claims to support. The user manual explains the details and includes an example of an EPS thumbnailer. The thunar-thumbnailers project maintained by Erlend Davidson aims to provide additional useful thumbnailers for Thunar.

EXIF thumbnails

JPEG previews will automatically use EXIF embedded thumbnails if available, which is true for nearly all JPEGs created by digital cameras today. This greatly reduces the amount of data which must be downloaded from a digital photo camera when browsing your pictures. Instead of downloading the whole JPEG image, which is usually several mega bytes, it suffices to download the first 50 KiB of the image data and extract the thumbnail which was automatically generated when you took the picture.

Support for fast extraction of thumbnails from RAW images is planned, but it was impossible to finish in time for this release. You are however welcome to help us by sending RAW photos with a description of the camera you are using.

Performance

Just like the previous releases, this release also saw several performance improvements. Several small optimizations were applied to the icon view to improve the layouting speed. With these optimizations in place the remaining bottleneck is Pango, which takes rather long to measure the size required for the icon captions.

Besides that, the loading of folders was improved. Thunar now uses a parallel lock-free algorithm to load folders, which speeds up really large folder and is even noticable on small folders with only a few hundred files.

Finally the time required to open a file browser window was reduced. Thunar pops up a new window in less than one second on a low-end 1.4Ghz laptop with 128MB memory running Gentoo Linux with no special optimizations.

Other bugfixes and improvements

As with all previous releases another huge amount of bugs were fixed and several small improvements were committed. For example, long shortcut names will be ellipsized now, Thunar will no longer try to gather detailed statistics about non-regular files to avoid blocking forever reading from named pipes and the word-wrapping of the icon view is now set depending on the current zoom level. The NEWS and ChangeLog files contain the complete list of changes.

Documentation

The user manual is nearly complete and includes several details about ways to extend the basic functionality provided by Thunar. The Thunar Project Wiki acts as an additional resource of information and users are welcome to extend the wiki with new tips and tricks.

Translations

This release is available in 32 languages, thanks to the amazing work of our translators (coordinated via the Xfce i18n project): Alexander Nyakhaychyk (be), Carles Muñoz Gorriz and Pau Rul·lan Ferragut (ca), Michal Várady (cs), Benedikt Meurer, Fabian Nowak and Jannis Pohlmann (de), Sonam Pelden (dz), Stathis Kamperis and Stavros Giannouris (el), Antono Vasiljev and Sylvain Vedrenne (eo), Daniel Fuertes Pérez, Miguel Angel Ruiz Manzano and Pablo Hernández-M. Saiz (es), Peeter Vois (et), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Maximilian Schleiss, Rafaël Carré and Stephane Roy (fr), Iván Seoane Pardo (gl), Yo'av Moshe and Yuval Tanny (he), Szervác Attila (hu), Roberto Pariset (it), Daichi Kawahata (ja), Dimitri Gogelia (ka), ByungHyun Choi (ko), Mantas Zapolskas (lt), Stephan Arts and Vincent Tunru (nl), Jovan Naumovski and Viktor Stojanovski (mk), Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa), Piotr Maliński, Szymon Kałasz and Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski (pl), Adriano Winter Bess, Joao Pedrosa and Rodrigo Coacci (pt_BR), Misu Moldovan (ro), Andrey Fedoseev and Sergey Fedoseev (ru), Alexander Toresson and Daniel Nylander (sv), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk), kangkang and Li Linxiao (zh_CN), Hydonsingore Cia and Cosmo Chene (zh_TW).

Download

Both Thunar 0.8.0 and libexo 0.3.2 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4.0 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar). You can also use the bugtracker to request new features.

What's next?

As mentioned above, not all items from the 1.0.0 roadmap were completed. One of the most often requested features is still in the pipeline: Network support. This is because implementing this feature properly is somewhat difficult, because we do not want a KDE or GNOME like solution here, but a working(!) solution, transparent to all applications, not only a few applications using KIO or gnome-vfs.

This feature will arrive with the 1.0.0 release, which is planned for August 2007. In the meantime it is suggested to use one of the currently available FUSE-based solutions. There are several HOW-TOs covering the setup of such solutions (i.e. here is one for Xubuntu).





Thunar 0.5.0 RC2 released

2006-11-05 [Direct Link]

Today the second release candicates of Thunar (0.5.0rc2) and libexo (0.3.1.12rc2) were released as part of Xfce 4.4RC2. This release candidate is planned to be the last release candidate before the final release, and as such focusses on fixing leftover bugs in both packages. The ChangeLog files in the source tarballs contain the complete list of changes.

Thunar

This list gives a rough overview of the fixes which went into this release of Thunar:

libexo

The major changes and bugfixes that went into this libexo release are listed below:

Download

Both Thunar 0.5.0 and libexo 0.3.1.12 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4RC2 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

The first release candidate is considered to be somewhat stable, but it may still contain bugs. You can help us to find and fix this bugs by testing the software and reporting any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).





Thunar 0.4.0 RC1 released

2006-09-03 [Direct Link]

Today the first release candidates of Thunar (0.4.0rc1) and libexo (0.3.1.10rc1) were released as part of Xfce 4.4RC1. These release includes several new features and fixes a lot of bugs in both packages. The ChangeLog files in the source tarballs contain the complete list of changes.

Trash

The most notable change when starting Thunar after upgrading to 0.4.0rc1 will be the addition of the trash support, which implements the Desktop Trash Can Specification (but is currently limited to the home trash).

If you delete a file now, it will not be lost forever, but instead will be moved to your trash can, and can be recovered easily by right-clicking on the file or folder in the trash and selecting Restore from the context menu.

If you want to permanently delete a file, you can either move it to the trash and then delete the file in the trash, or hold down the Shift key while pressing Del or selecting Delete from the menu. You will still need to confirm the permanent removal of files, so you do not accidently remove an important file without any notice.

You can also move files to the trash by dropping them onto the trash can in the shortcuts or tree pane, or by dropping them onto the trash panel applet. The panel applet displays the current state of the trash and allows users to empty the trash can. It uses D-Bus to communicate with Thunar using the org.xfce.Trash interface. This way only one process manages the trash, which greatly reduces overhead.

The org.xfce.Trash interface is also used by xfdesktop to display a trash icon on the desktop, along with other special icons that have been added with 4.4RC1.

Rubberband Selection

With the addition of rubberband selection to GtkTreeView in GTK+ 2.10 it is finally possible to use rubberband selection in the Detailed List View.

The ExoTreeView widget provides all the required work-arounds to make rubberband selection interact properly with GTK+s own Drag'n'Drop mechanism, which was unfortunately not possible with GtkTreeView alone (but this will hopefully be fixed in one of the next GTK+ releases).

Creating Launchers the Easy Way

With exo 0.3.1.10rc1 it is even easier to create launchers for applications that are registered via the freedesktop.org menu system. No need to look up the name of the binary, or search through large icon themes to locate the appropriate icon for the application anymore. Just start typing the name of the application or the applications purpose in the Name box and a list of possible applications with that name or purpose will appear.

Select the application you are looking for from the list of matching applications and all the required values are filled with the applications settings.

Icon Chooser

A new class ExoIconChooserDialog was added to provide a dialog which lets users select an icon from either the current icon theme or an image file.

The implementation conforms to version 0.8 of the Icon Naming Specification.

Thumbnail Preview

exo 0.3.1.10rc1 now also offers thumbnail preview functionality for GtkFileChooser, which automatically displays and generates thumbnails for the currently selected file and manages the thumbnails according to the Thumbnail Managing Standard.

Superuser mode

Thunar now displays a warning text when running the file manager process with root privilegues to ensure that the user always keeps in mind that he/she may harm the system very easily now.

Graphical Installer

There is now also a graphical source installer available for Thunar and exo, based on the same technology as the well known Xfce installers.

Note that the Xfce 4.4RC1 installer already includes Thunar and exo, so if you are going to install Xfce, you won't need to install Thunar and exo separately.

Other bugfixes and improvements

As with every release another huge amount of bugs were fixed and several small improvements were committed. For example, when selecting an image file, the dimensions of the image file will now be displayed in the statusbar, just like the original path is displayed when a trashed file is selected. A No to all button was added to the overwrite confirmation dialog, the Back and Forward toolbar buttons now have menus with the history attached to them, the dependency of the thunar-vfs library on GConf for thumbnailers is gone and the thumbnailers are now loaded from an automatically generated thumbnailers cache, a new thumbnailer for TrueType font files was added, the Desktop folder is now displayed in the shortcuts pane if it exists, several crashes related to incompatible or undocumented changes in GTK+ 2.10 were fixed and both Thunar and exo now use the new GSlice allocator for small memory chunks where possible to further reduce the memory overhead.

Translations

Thunar is now available in 26 languages, thanks to the work of our translators: Carles Muñoz Gorriz and Pau Rul·lan Ferragut (ca), Michal Várady (cs), Benedikt Meurer, Fabian Nowak and Jannis Pohlmann (de), Stathis Kamperis and Stavros Giannouris (el), Antono Vasiljev and Sylvain Vedrenne (eo), Daniel Fuertes Pérez, Miguel Angel Ruiz Manzano and Pablo Hernández-M. Saiz (es), Peeter Vois (et), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Maximilian Schleiss, Rafaël Carré and Stephane Roy (fr), Iván Seoane Pardo (gl), Yo'av Moshe and Yuval Tanny (he), Szervác Attila (hu), Roberto Pariset (it), Daichi Kawahata (ja), Dimitri Gogelia (ka), Mantas Zapolskas (lt), Vincent Tunru (nl), Piotr Maliński, Szymon Kałasz and Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski (pl), Adriano Winter Bess, Joao Pedrosa and Rodrigo Coacci (pt_BR), Misu Moldovan (ro), Andrey and Sergey Fedoseev (ru), Alexander Toresson and Daniel Nylander (sv), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk), Kangkang and Li Linxiao (zh_CN), Hydonsingore Cia and Cosmo Chene (zh_TW).

Download

Both Thunar 0.4.0 and libexo 0.3.1.10 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4RC1 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

The first release candidate is considered to be somewhat stable, but it may still contain bugs. You can help us to find and fix this bugs by testing the software and reporting any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).





Thunar 0.4.0 RC1 Features

2006-08-09 [Direct Link]

A short summary of the new features for the upcoming 0.4.0RC1 release of Thunar is available here.





Thunar 0.3.2 Beta2 released

2006-07-09 [Direct Link]

The second beta release of the upcoming versions of Thunar (0.3.2beta2) and libexo (0.3.1.8beta2) was released today as part of the Xfce 4.4BETA2 release. This release fixes various bugs in both packages, and provides a few new features. The ChangeLog files in the source tarballs contain the complete list of changes.

Sending Files

Users can now easily send files from Thunar to other programs using the new Send To menu.

The targets Desktop (Create Links), which creates symbolic links for the selected files on the desktop, Mail Recipient, which sends the selected files to an email contact using your preferred mail reader, and Side Pane (Create Shortcuts), which adds shortcuts for the selected folders to the side pane (if the shortcuts pane is active), are included by default. But users, vendors or other applications can dynamically extend this menu with other useful targets (see the description on the Thunar Project Wiki for details).

When sending multiple large files via email, using the Mail Recipient target, Thunar will ask you whether to compress the files and attach them as a single archive or attach the files directly.

Folders will always be sent as archives, since most mail readers cannot handle folders as email attachments.

Creating Launchers

Thanks to the new desktop item editor, it is now possible to easily create application launchers and links, which are represented as .desktop files in the file system. For example, xfdesktop uses this functionality to create new launchers on the desktop.

It is also used by Thunar to create links when dropping hyperlinks from web browsers (i.e. Firefox) to Thunar windows.

MIME Handling

The handling of MIME applications was improved, and it is now possible to remove a MIME application launcher that was previously added via the custom command box in the Open With dialog.

However, you can only remove launchers previously added via the custom command box. This is to avoid confusion of this feature with the uninstallation of applications.

External Plugins

The Thunar Archive Plugin now includes a generic archive manager interface, which allows it to work with virtually every archive manager out there. It ships with support for File Roller (the GNOME archive manager) and Ark (the KDE archive manager). The Xfce archive manager, Xarchiver, will support the new archive plugin with the next release.

See the official Plugins page for an overview of the currently available plugins for Thunar.

Other bugfixes and improvements

In addition to the new features listed above, a lot of bugs were fixed and several small improvements made it for this release. For example, the commands for custom actions are now run via the shell, so environment variables and backticks can be used, the access permissions in the properties dialog are updated properly now, the folder loading performance was improved and several race conditions have been fixed, the default action for folder drop operation is now guessed properly depending on whether source and target are on the same device, the automatic path completion in the location bar and the location dialog was improved, the number of necessary relocations for the libraries was reduced to improve application startup time, and many more... The ChangeLog files contain a complete list of changes.

Translations

Thunar is currently available in 24 languages, thanks to the amazing work of our translators: Pau Rul·lan Ferragut (ca), Michal Varady (cs), Fabian Nowak, Jannis Pohlmann and Benedikt Meurer (de), Stavros Giannouris (el), Antono Vasiljev (eo), Pablo Hernández-M. Saiz (es), Peeter Vois (et), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Stephane Roy (fr), Yo'av Moshe (he), Szervác Attila (hu), Roberto Pariset (it), Daichi Kawahata (ja), Mantas Zapolskas (lt), Vincent Tunru (nl), Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski (pl), Joao Pedrosa (pt_BR), Misu Moldovan (ro), Andrey and Sergey Fedoseev (ru), Daniel Nylander (sv), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk), kangkang (zh_CN), Hydonsingore Cia and Cosmo Chene (zh_TW).

Download

Both Thunar 0.3.2 and libexo 0.3.1.8 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4BETA2 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

The software is still considered beta quality, and it is expected to contain bugs. You can help us to find and fix this bugs by testing the software and reporting any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).





Thunar 0.3.0 Beta1 released

2006-04-16 [Direct Link]

The first beta release of the upcoming versions of Thunar (0.3.0beta1) and libexo (0.3.1.6beta1) was released today as part of the Xfce 4.4BETA1 release. Again, several new features were added to both packages, and a large number of bugs were fixed (the ChangeLog file contains a complete list of changes).

Compact View

A new Compact List View was added to Thunar and libexo, which is similar in functionality to the Icon View, but lays out items in columns instead of rows, and provides a more compact layout than the Icon View.

Users of Windows Explorer will feel right at home with the new Compact List View.

Tree Pane

The long awaited tree pane was finally imported, allowing users to choose either the shortcuts list or the tree view for the side pane (or neither of them). You can easily switch between the different side panes using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+B (for the shortcuts list) and Ctrl+T (for the tree).

Similar to the shortcuts pane removable devices are displayed in the tree pane (requires HAL on Linux) and users can automatically mount them by expanding or activating the device nodes.

Hover Selection

The single-click navigation was improved to include support for hover selection, which allows users to automatically select items by pausing the mouse pointer over them for a certain amount of time.

The behavior is optional and can be disabled as shown in the screenshot above.

Bulk Rename

The Bulk Renamer was finally imported, allowing users to easily rename multiple files at once. The Thunar core provides only the framework for bulk renamers, the rename operations itself are provided by plugins, which allows developers to extend the Bulk Renamer with new renamer modules. You can either open Bulk Rename from within Thunar by selecting multiple files and pressing F2 or choosing Rename... from the Edit menu, or run it as standalone application from the applications menu (Bulk Rename in the System menu).

The Thunar distribution includes an extension thunar-sbr (in the plugins/ subdirectory), which provides five basic renamer modules:

More advanced renamers can be provided by external plugins.

Configurable Columns

Support for configurable columns in the detailed list view was added, which allows users to specify the file attributes that should be displayed in the detailed list view.

Thunar also features a fixed column width mode for the detailed list view, which does not only improve the usability for users used to the Windows Explorer way, but also speeds up the display of the detailed list by a factor of 10 for medium sized folders.

External Plugins

In addition to the three plugins that ship with Thunar (in the plugins/ subdirectory), there are currently two external plugins available to enhance the user experience. First, the Thunar Media Tags Plugin written by Jannis Pohlmann, which offers an additional renamer module - named Audio Tags - to allow renaming multiple files based on the media tags stored within these files (for example ID3 tags in case of MP3 files).

And the Thunar Archive Plugin, which offers archive manager integration into Thunar. See the official Plugins page for an overview of the currently available plugins.

Advanced Properties

The Advanced Properties plugin (thunar-apr) was imported into Thunar, and currently provides two additional pages for the file properties dialog. An Image page, which is displayed for all kinds of image files and allows users to view image properties, including Exif information if Thunar is build with libexif.

And a Launcher page, as displayed in the screenshot above, which provides an easy-to-use editor for all kinds of .desktop files (used as application launchers in modern UNIX/Linux desktops).

Other bugfixes and improvements

Several other improvements went into this release. For example, the previous sorting algorithm was replaced by a smarter algorithm, the file properties dialog now displays the total size for folders, the statusbar includes a size summary of the files in the current folder if no items are selected, support for gnome-mount was added, drag and drop support was improved, the performance was improved when loading large folders, keyboard shortcuts can now be changed on the fly by pointing at the menu item and pressing the key combo that should be used as shortcut. And many more... the ChangeLog file contains a complete list.

Translations

Thunar is currently available in 19 languages, thanks to the work of our translators: Pau Rul·lan Ferragut (ca), Fabian Nowak, Jannis Pohlmann and Benedikt Meurer (de), Stavros Giannouris (el), Pablo Hernández-M. Saiz (es), Peeter Vois (et), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Stephane Roy (fr), Yo'av Moshe (he), Szervác Attila (hu), Roberto Pariset (it), Daichi Kawahata (ja), Vincent Tunru (nl), Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski (pl), Joao Pedrosa (pt_BR), Andrey and Sergey Fedoseev (ru), Daniel Nylander (sv), Hydonsingore Cia (zh_TW).

Download

Both Thunar 0.3.0 and libexo 0.3.1.6 are available from the download section, and as part of the Xfce 4.4BETA1 release. The Thunar Project Wiki contains installation instructions for Thunar.

Reporting bugs

The software is still considered beta quality, and it is expected to contain bugs. You can help us to find and fix this bugs by testing the software and reporting any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).





Thunar 0.2.2 Alpha2 released

2006-03-05 [Direct Link]

The second alpha releases of the upcoming versions of Thunar (0.2.2alpha2) and libexo (0.3.1.4alpha2) were just released to the world. Several new features were added to both packages, and a large number of bugs were fixed (the ChangeLog file contains a complete list of changes).

Xfce Preferred Applications

The preferred applications framework that was previously available in Terminal for about a year was imported into libexo and is now available to all Xfce applications (bug #1368 contains the details about the import).

Using the new framework, users no longer need to edit shell profiles to select default applications, but can select them using a simple preferences dialog, which also provides a list of possible applications detected on the user's system. The exo-open utility serves as a command line frontend to the preferred applications framework.

Single click navigation

libexo now provides two widget classes, ExoIconView and ExoTreeView, which both support single click navigation. Thunar uses these widgets to provide single click navigation and other applications like xfburn may also use this functionality in the future, so that single click support will be consistent among all Xfce applications.

Desktop Actions

Support for so called Desktop Actions was added, which allows applications to install additional actions in the file managers context menu.

For example Xfmedia installs two additional actions Enqueue in Xfmedia and Enqueue and play with Xfmedia for all supported audio files.

HAL integration

Thunar now offers optional support for HAL on Linux.

Using HAL, Linux users are also able to work with removable media in Thunar now. The existing FreeBSD volume manager support was further improved. The docs/README.volumes file included with the Thunar distributions contains details about the integrated volume manager.

D-BUS integration

Optional support for D-BUS was added to Thunar. Two interfaces, org.xfce.FileManager and org.xfce.Thunar (see the interface description for details), are now implemented by Thunar. This way other applications can interact with the file manager, for example, exo-open uses org.xfce.FileManager to open files passed to it.

xfdesktop integration

The upcoming version of xfdesktop includes optional support for desktop icons using thunar-vfs and thunarx. Some parts of thunar-vfs were adjusted to offer smooth integration into xfdesktop.

Templates

Support for templates has been added in a way compatible to Nautilus (templates are loaded from and stored to the Templates folder in the users home directory). This may change in the future to use a hidden directory instead.

Other bugfixes and improvements

Several other improvements went into the second alpha releases. For example, Thunar now tries to load required data structures only on demand to reduce the overall memory usage. The behavior of the shortcuts pane and the path bar were adjusted to better match the behavior of GtkFileChooser. Thumbnails are properly regenerated now as the original file changes. Type-ahead support is now available in both icon and details view. And many more... the ChangeLog file contains a complete list.

Translations

Thunar is currently available in 17 languages, thanks to the work of our translators.

Pau Rul·lan Ferragut (ca), Fabian Nowak and Benedikt Meurer (de), Stavros Giannouris (el), Pablo Hernández-M. Saiz (es), Piarres Beobide (eu), Jari Rahkonen (fi), Stephane Roy (fr), Szervác Attila (hu), Roberto Pariset (it), Daichi Kawahata (ja), Vincent Tunru (nl), Tomasz Michał Łukaszewski (pl), Joao Pedrosa (pt_BR), Andrey and Sergey Fedoseev (ru), Daniel Nylander (sv), Hydonsingore Cia (zh_TW).

Download

Both Thunar 0.2.2 and libexo 0.3.1.4 are available from the download section.

Reporting bugs

The software is still considered alpha quality, and it is expected to contain bugs. You can help us to find and fix this bugs by testing the software and reporting any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).





Thunar 0.2.0 Alpha released

2006-01-22 [Direct Link]

The first alpha releases of the upcoming versions of Thunar (0.2.0alpha) and libexo (0.3.1.2alpha) were just released to the world, with lots of bugfixes and new features.

While the primary focus for the libexo alpha release was on bugfixing, Thunar includes several new features, which enables it to be used as file manager for daily work. This doesn't mean that Thunar is finished, but atleast the most basic file management tasks can now be performed using Thunar.

The following list gives a brief overview of the changes that went into Thunar between 0.1.4pre-alpha and 0.2.0alpha:

For a complete list of changes see the ChangeLog file included with the Thunar distribution.

Both Thunar 0.2.0 and libexo 0.3.1.2 are available from the download section. Please report any problems to the Thunar development team using the Xfce Bug Tracking System (product Thunar).