Fwd: Re: [xubuntu-users] Tip: Use PCManFM

[Joshua O'Leary]

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On 31/10/12 21:27, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
> On 30/10/12 23:08, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On keskiviikko 31 lokakuu 2012, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
>>> Perhaps pcmanfm should be shipped with xubuntu. It has less bugs, is
>>> faster, has more features
>> Could you list these bug and feature differences, or point
>> e.g. to a wiki page listing them?
>>
>>
>>> and less dependencies.
>> What about translations, which one has better coverage for
>> languages supported by rest of XFCE?
>>
>>
>>> But then I suppose it would deviate from an 'authentic' xfce environment.
>> Well, there's only so far one can go from XCFE, until it's LXDE,
>> and Lubuntu already has that...
>>
>>
>> 	- Eero
>>
>>> On Oct 30, 2012 10:44 PM, "Michael Höhne"<mih-hoehne at web.de>  wrote:
>>>> Am Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:29:10 +0000
>>>>
>>>> schrieb David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>:
>>>>> On 30 October 2012 21:23, Michael Höhne<mih-hoehne at web.de>  wrote:
>>>>>> David Gerard wrote:
>>>>>>> PCManFM is the LXDE file manager. It makes Thunar look fat. You
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>> But: You can't use it with the Places-Addon in the Panel.
>>>>> I just did successfully in Xfce 4.10 (Xubuntu 12.10). (Added
>>>>> "Places", went to a folder, it opened in PCManFM.)
>>>> I use 12.04 with Xfce 4.10. But it opens directories with Thunar!?
>>>>
>>>>>> And it has no
>>>>>> user defined actions for selected file types...
>>>>> What do you mean?
>>>> I think it's called "custom actions" (I use german as my language).
>>>> You can define actions for some filetypes/directories/... which will be
>>>> shown when you (right-)click on a file/directory of that type(s).
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>>
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> Will do, am quite busy (doing AS-Level Work) but have already started 
> a wiki:
> https://github.com/Joshun/xubuntu-wiki/wiki/Thunar-vs-PcmanFM
>
> Some of Thunar's bugs include slow initial launch, and duplicate 
> entries. It also lacks some features such as tabbed browsing and 
> integrated desktop management, pcmanfm's gvfs integration seems more 
> reliable, and it has much faster start and browse times. Not sure how 
> to find about about translation support, will have to research that.
>
> Dependencies are, for thunar:
> libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), 
> libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libexo-1-0 (>= 
> 0.5.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), 
> libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 147), libice6 (>= 
> 1:1.0.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsm6, 
> libthunarx-2-0 (>= 1.1.0), libxfce4ui-1-0 (>= 4.9.0), libxfce4util6 
> (>= 4.9.0), thunar-data (= 1.4.0-1ubuntu2), desktop-file-utils, 
> shared-mime-info, exo-utils
>
> Compared to just...
> libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfm-gtk3 (>= 1.0~rc1), libfm3 
> (>= 1.0~rc1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 
> 2.24.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libx11-6, 
> libfm-gtk-bin
> for pcmanfm. Would clearly save the disk image space.
>
> Joshua
On the other hand though, pcmanfm does lack custom actions and 
pattern-select...
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