Version 0.1a-51

[Mladen Mijatov]

New release is out and am really happy with changes this time. A lot of regression bugs were fixed, added few features. Also, this release brings first plugin not written by us. Very happy to see how simple it is to extend functionality of Sunflower.

List of changes is somewhat big, so I won't get into details. Drag and drop as well as copy/paste is working again. Sessions plugin is fixed and made a bit more flexible so I don't have to fix if I ever decide to change internals again in the future.

I did some optimizations on copy operation. Thanks to Patrik Dufresne for pointing out obvious problems with buffer size we now have up to 2x increased performance when copying files locally. 

Translators should update their language files as I did add (and remove) some of the stuff.

That's it for this time folks. Am here for any questions!

Have fun!

- Mladen

[pwu...@gmail.com]

Mladen,

First, congratulations on the results of your hard work. Sunflower will make a great replacement for Nautilus especially if they continue to degrade it.

It would be great if you could make Sunflower unique among file managers in the linux world by implementing for the first time a particular feature seen in (windows) Free Commander. This is the ability to have the option to see a "flat view" of all the files in a batch of directories regardless of directory structure (recursive). This is an extremely useful feature when trying to compare directories or eliminate duplicate files.

For instance, if music files are stored in directory structure home>media>music>artist>album>title you can navigate to >music in the panel and then choose:

 "flat view -directories" and see all the artist and album directories as a single list or
 "flat view -files" and see all the lowest level entries as a single list (in this case all the titles)

I know you can use the command "ls -R" to see a list in a terminal but this is so untidy as to be really unusable. I have searched in vain for a linux file manager which does this and am confident you would be the first one if you chose to implement it.

Please keep up the good work.

Regards,

Paul Usher

[Mladen Mijatov]

Hi there.

Thanks for kind words. Am glad you like it.

Feature you are talking about sounds interesting. Can you provide screenshots or perhaps videos of it at work. 

Thanks!