Xfce Diary

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Thunar 0.8.0 and libexo 0.3.2 releases

I just released Thunar 0.8.0 and exo 0.3.2 as part of the long awaited Xfce 4.4.0, which will be released in a few hours. The separate tarballs are provided for users of Xfce 4.2.x refusing to upgrade to Xfce 4.4.x, and users of other desktop environments. This is the final release of Thunar, but since not all items from the roadmap were completed, it is not yet the 1.0.0 version.

You will need at least 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#2007-01-21

Several screenshots are available at:
http://thunar.xfce.org/screenshots.html

The source tarballs and the graphical installers can be downloaded from:
http://thunar.xfce.org/download.html#0.8.0

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 18:04

7 Comments:

  • What I'm currently missing in Thunar is the option to mount dm-crypted devices (USB-HD). They are shown in the left panel after this release, but are not very useful. pmount does this.
    Hope theres no bug/misunderstanding on my side ;-)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/1/07 10:47  

  • Support for this feature is on the way.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 22/1/07 10:48  

  • Curious if it's been considered to have an optional second pane for filebrowsing. That's the feature I miss most from Thunar, and if it had it, it would be the killer filemanager for me. I usually use two side by side, but that's kind of annoying when I need to switch to another app and back quickly.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 28/1/07 08:42  

  • Thunar seems to be a decent file-renamer as well, but I've a unique situation that I'm not sure if it can handle. I've got a directory of photos sorted by ~/year/month/day/picture_name.jpg. Carelessly I've given more than one picture the same name, like this:
    ~/2004/10/10/wife.jpg
    ~/2005/09/03/wife.jpg

    Can Thunar identify and rename those dupes?

    By Anonymous Dotan Cohen, at 12/2/07 18:17  

  • cool .. great
    but i got few trouble at the desktop

    when i delete some files the icons were still appear at the desktop
    until i restart xfce

    help me please i'm newbie to linux

    : i'm using slackware 11 (vmware) and xfce4.4 from installer (xfce-4-4-instller.run)

    By Anonymous cakri@cs.its.ac.id, at 13/2/07 16:10  

  • Thank you so much for Thunar, it's the filemanager I dreamed of... making myself. Though in that dream of mine it also had tabs for additional organization, and a 'column' view similar to that of a Mac Finder.

    By Anonymous god.DLL, at 10/4/07 02:17  

  • I dont need any more graphic features only thing what bothers me is that I cant see time when file was created...date is not enough...it's really annoying go to terminal every time when u need to check it

    By Anonymous Risa, at 29/7/07 12:08  

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