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[PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, it’s time to tell the world what we’re doing to the file manager
Here is a status report for PCManFM.

Several bugs are fixed, and others are not. I’m currently working on
fixing them.
1.Directory tree will be available from side pane again in next
release. I have finished 50% of the feature and hope that I can make
it in the following weeks
2.Tabs now takes less space when showing filenames that are too long.
3.The location bar is re-written. Now auto-completion for directory
paths works more correctly.
4.I have implemented a simple button-style path bar recently, but to
add it to PCManFM, some changes to the UI are needed so this might not
be available yet in the next release.
5.Integration with lxshortcut is planned. So you can create new
application shortcut on the desktop easier, but this is not yet
implemented.
6.Status messages are now more correct and human readable.
7.Some code cleanup was done to make the source code more readable to
future contributors.
8. While fixing bugs of PCManFM, I found a severe bug in udisks
regarding to CD-ROM polling. This bug leaves the filesystem on CD-ROM
mounted even after the media has been removed via pressing physical
eject button on the device. I made a patch for it, but upstream
authors did not accept the patch. They came up with a new solution
utilizing the latest in-kernel polling provided by Linux kernel and
did some fixes themselves. So in the near future, this bug will be
resolved anyways.

So these are basically what I’m doing on the file manager recently.
Please help if you can. Thanks a lot.