http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ 2008-07-04T12:56:16+01:00 text/html 2006-02-09T16:14:38+01:00 benny@80.131.230.86 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/subversion_access?rev=1139501678 [meh] Helping development of thunar You can help out developing thunar in several ways. First, there is a need for active programmers to help writing the different parts of thunar. Second, we need people who are willing to test and debug the software. If... text/html 2006-01-16T17:09:44+01:00 benny@80.131.209.134 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:overview?rev=1137431384 User interface Rules of Thumb lists a few basic UI rules, that apply to nearly every piece of software, but are good to keep in mind for the file manager. Some thoughts about the Spatial View are available. It's not yet decided whether Thunar will ... text/html 2006-01-16T17:08:25+01:00 benny@80.131.209.134 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/search_integration?rev=1137431305 [created] Search Integration (UI) With the basic stuff in place, it's now time to think about the way a search interface should be integrated into Thunar. Since Thunar is now (as was decided) fully navigational, the obvious solution of doing searches in a spe... text/html 2005-11-14T16:27:09+01:00 benny@80.131.215.68 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/start?rev=1131985629 Thunar The Thunar project aims at developing a new file manager for the next major branch of Xfce (the 4.4 branch). The main goal is to provide a fast and easy to use alternative to Xffm; therefore, Thunar should be kept simple. The name Thunar is ... text/html 2005-11-14T16:18:55+01:00 benny@80.131.215.68 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/memory_usage?rev=1131985135 [created] Memory Usage Several people wanted to see numbers about Thunar's memory usage in comparison to other popular file managers for the Unix/Linux desktop. So, here are some numbers for Thunar in comparison to Nautilus, ROX, Konqueror and Xffm. Test se... text/html 2005-10-26T22:05:57+01:00 sofar@66.93.40.222 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/infrastructure:related-links?rev=1130364357 Related Links This is a loose collection of interesting links for the people involved in the Thunar development, and may probably be of some use to others as well. Manuals Links to a few online manuals that may be useful. SVN Book Free online chap... text/html 2005-10-26T22:05:15+01:00 sofar@66.93.40.222 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/infrastructure:overview?rev=1130364315 [cvs->svn] Infrastructure SVN repository Related Links IRC Channel Thunar developers, contributors and enthusiasts meet and talk in #thunar on freenode.net. Mailinglists Thunar uses the following mailinglist: thunar-dev, which is used for discussion abo... text/html 2005-10-26T22:04:02+01:00 sofar@66.93.40.222 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/infrastructure:svn?rev=1130364242 [created SVN ifno instead of CVS.] Infrastructure - SVN repository The Thunar project uses the subversion concurrent versions system (aka SVN) to manage documents and files used in the development of the file manager. Currently, there are three ways to access the repository, either u... text/html 2005-07-02T20:10:53+01:00 brian@24.6.245.55 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/design:overview?rev=1120335053 [add plugin system link] Design Other pages to look at: Initial design considerations based on the initial research Analysis of the collected data MIME System design and implementation considerations. Plugin System overview. Trash System The Trash System is probably on... text/html 2005-07-02T13:40:33+01:00 jaap@62.221.232.171 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/design:initial-considerations?rev=1120311633 Design - Initial Considerations These are initial, rough considerations for the project design. MIME Handling The MIME system uses the Shared MIME Database to determine a MIME type for a given file (use stat()-Infos to recognize special inode/* ty... text/html 2005-07-02T12:46:15+01:00 brian@24.6.245.55 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/design:plugin-system?rev=1120308375 [created - first draft, needs a bit of work] Plugin System Thunar's plugin system is currently not well defined, and may not even appear in version 1.0. However, we can get a general idea at this point as to what interfaces can be implemented as plugins: ThunarView ThunarSidePane ThunarLocat... text/html 2005-03-27T20:26:29+01:00 benny@217.85.190.105 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/implementation:mime-glob-match?rev=1111955189 [fix description of the Literal Pattern handling] Implementation - MIME Glob Match The MIME Glob Match implementation should follow the suggestions from the Shared MIME Database specification as closely as possible (unlike other projects) to make sure the user will be presented with usable results (... text/html 2005-03-27T20:20:08+01:00 benny@217.85.190.105 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/implementation:mime-glob-match-analysis?rev=1111954808 [typo] Implementation - MIME Glob Match (Analysis) This page contains an analysis of the data contained in the globs files of the Shared MIME Database. The analysis data was generated by the tool dump-globs-by-type, which was specifically written to analys... text/html 2005-03-20T17:03:22+01:00 benny@217.85.184.86 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:suggestion-20050320?rev=1111338202 [created] User interface - Suggestion 20050320 This is a suggestion for the user interface based on the current discussion (until 20050320). The user interface discussion so far, brought up two important points: The GtkFileChooser-like path bar seems to be t... text/html 2005-03-13T18:18:54+01:00 benny@217.229.254.13 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/misc:release-name?rev=1110737934 [created] Miscellaneous - Release Name While Thunar is pretty established as Project Name, we are still looking for a good Release Name (or maybe a Release Title). Maybe something that sounds more like a file manager and less fictional. Suggestions The list ... text/html 2005-03-06T23:52:27+01:00 benny@217.229.249.18 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/design:mime-system?rev=1110153147 Design - MIME System The MIME System is a vital part of the file manager. But it is important that the MIME System can be used outside Thunar at a later time (e.g. in the Xfce panel), so care should be taken during the design. MIME-type detection ... text/html 2005-03-06T11:14:19+01:00 perldude@213.23.39.194 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/implementation:overview?rev=1110107659 Implementation These are initial, rough considerations for the implementation. Thunar Views Thunar data will be presented by implementing the GtkTreeModel. On-top of this, there will be the ExoIconView and the GtkTreeView (as list view). The optio... text/html 2005-03-05T18:56:33+01:00 benny@217.85.183.126 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:columns-view?rev=1110048993 User interface - Columns View There was some discussion on thunar-dev whether or not a Columns View should be included in Thunar. This feature originally appeared with NextSTEP and was imported into Aqua Finder by Apple. In the UNIX/Linux desktop co... text/html 2005-03-04T23:31:25+01:00 benny@217.85.178.195 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:file-properties-dialog?rev=1109979085 User Interface - File Properties Dialog The File Properties Dialog is used to display the properties - like name, location, type, size, permissions, etc. - to the user, and in addition, it allows the user to change certain properties, like the name ... text/html 2005-03-04T22:52:07+01:00 benny@217.85.178.195 http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:gtkfilechooser-like?rev=1109976727 [created] User interface - GtkFileChooser-like mockup Motivation It's quite clear that with a navigational approach you need some control element in the user interface that tells the user which directory he's visiting currently. While a location bar is the c...