Replace pcmanfm in 9.10.01 with Thunar (Page 3 of 7)

My sentiments exactly the main thing pcmanfm has going for it right now in my case is tabs. But my god does it bork thumbnails.

I second WiCd

Concerning the NetworkManager: Upt to now there's no other app that allows me to connect via my umts-stick without having to edit the dial-scripts.
Tried umtsmon which came with a pretty up-to-date Sidux, but that one failed half way.

One thing pcmanfm can do is draw the contents of your Desktop folder on your ...er desktop. That's not very crunchbangy to do I suppose, but I like to drop things on my desktop until I've decided what to do with them. With Thunar you'd need to install xfdesktop4 to do that.

I have no problem with that I love the way xfdesktop handles the desktop. Of course I choose to turn off desktop icons with it as well but it's a much better option than using pcmanfm to control the desktop. You have much more control over what you see and what you don't, both on terms of desktop icons and the xfdesktop menu itself.

will we see pcmanfm in the lite version, and thunar in the full version?

I didn't experience problems with pcmanfm, so i would vote for it because of the big size difference to thunar. But of cause functionality comes first. So it's maybe a good idea to take thunar for the next release.
But do you know that Hong Jen Yee is working on a complete rewrite of pcmanfm? I'm just wondering cause nobody mentioned it.

  (from http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/)
I really like pcmanfm and I hope it will at least be a candidate for future releases of crunchbang.

Last edited by andi (2009-10-01 13:20:53)

omploader integration.
i change my vote!  thunar is worthy!    hehe.  turncoat.
is that unanimous now then?  lol.

+1 thunar.

Strangely, ive noticed no difference between the two - thunar boots up just as quick.

Also from above: The thumbnailer for thunar works 10 times better, and 100 times faster than the one with pcmanfm. I have no idea why, but I just noticed it when I started seeing all of the thumbnails in thunar instead of every third every once in a while every other day with pcmanfm

As for wicd, Im gonna go with it not working for me because of PEBKAC

I only just saw this thread.

it reminded me of how many things in pcmanfm I dislike.

If I'm honest, I never use tabs either, so it's not even a consideration to me.

Little things (like the aforementioned fact that pcmanfm shows all volumes, even the unmounted ones) will make me miss pcmanfm, but I've switched to thunar, as it seems to be the best option for me for now.

Oh, and I always switch to wicd in #!

However, if I had a USB 3G modem, i would be using Network Manager.

I remember that release candidate (or whatever it was) vividly because it was my first introduction to tint... I actually stuck with that RC instead of the final 8.10 for quite some time. (Replaced kazehakase with firefox though.)

Pcmanfm is certainly light and zippy and a great choice for the type of distro that #! represents. It's a little bit quirky at times, like us humans,  but perhaps that is why I have grown fond of it. So a lean and mean pcmanfm is the one for me.