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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Thunar 0.4.0 and libexo 0.3.1.10 rc1 releases

I just released Thunar-0.4.0rc1 and libexo-0.3.1.10rc1 as part of Xfce 4.4RC1. The separate tarballs are provided for users of Xfce 4.2.x that don't want to upgrade yet, and users of other desktop environments. As suggested by the name it is not yet a final release, but is considered to be somewhat stable.

You will need atleast libxfce4util 4.2.2, GTK+ 2.6.4, shared-mime-info 0.15 and desktop-file-utils 0.10 to build and run Thunar. In addition Gamin or FAM are highly recommended to enable file system monitoring in Thunar. For HAL support on Linux, the libhal-storage-devel package is required (0.5.0 or above). Furthermore if you want to use the trash panel applet, you will need the Xfce Panel 4.4BETA1 or above and D-Bus 0.34 or above. The README file contains a complete list of dependencies and optional packages.

The official announcement is available at:
http://thunar.xfce.org/news.html#2006-09-03

Additional (updated) screenshots are available at:
http://thunar.xfce.org/screenshots.html

The source tarballs and the graphical installer can be downloaded from:
http://thunar.xfce.org/download.html#0.4.0

Installation instructions and documentation are available at:
http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/

Please report bugs to the Xfce Bug Tracker (product Thunar) at:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 20:30

5 Comments:

  • Hello,

    Thunar is very very good.
    I love it. But I want an option...

    Could you hide an option to hide the menu ?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 14/9/06 08:42  

  • Use Bugzilla to file feature requests (tho, this feature doesn't seem very useful, esp. since certain functionality is only available via the menu, or via keyboard shortcuts provided by the menu).

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 14/9/06 10:02  

  • Is this true?

    This could be the motto of Thunar. I investigated its internal architecture, and particularly disliked that it uses an ugly coding style, and doesn't have a sophisticated async loading architecture like Nautilus, but a sync one. Try to browse some slow sftp (kernel) mounts and you'll see where this leads to. Seriously, the Nautilus architecture is quite good - if you want another GUI, write it instead of replacing the backend with something new, error-prone.

    http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2774/
    41698#comment-41698

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/10/06 20:37  

  • I'd say this guy did not look into either Nautilus or Thunar. You can read sth like this on slashdot day-by-day.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 3/10/06 22:04  

  • Danke Ben!

    I was a bit shocked.

    After Slackware 11.0 was released today, I want to prepare buildscripts with XFCE4.4rc with dbus, hal and all other personal goodies (vdr...) on my main workstation and laptop instead of Ubuntu.
    My main filemanagers are bash, sometimes mc and for browsing/organize my media directories Thunar ;)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4/10/06 00:19  

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