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* File operations: move, copy, trashing, ...
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Improve error handling.
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should provide multiple destination files for recovering trashed files.
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Check available disk size prior to moving/copying.
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Calculate speed and show remaining time.
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* Recover previously trashed files.
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Queue files which are already processed in file operations, and send
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change notifications in timeout handlers to improve performance.
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Dnd destination, drop site handling. => Almost done
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For drag source, use file:///~/.gvfs/ rather than its original
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URL scheme to be compatible with other programs => need more survey
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=> g_file_new_for_uri, and then g_file_get_path can return gvfs fuse path.
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Refuse drop if the user doesn't has access to destination dir.
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Fix incorrect drop target item of icon view mode. => done
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Fix incorrect design of 'query-info' signal.
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Implement XDS support => done, but in a quite dirty way.
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* Thumbnails, may be cached with hash table to speed up loading.
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Need to support external thumbnailers.
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Thunar can directly load embedded thumbnail in jpeg files, we need that, too.
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Size of cell renderers and ExoIconView item size must be adjusted for Thumbnail View.
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* Mount volumes and mount points when needed
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This already works with remote URLs.
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Need to be done for removable devices. => partially done
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Now mounting works when the user click on a volume in side pane.
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Not available yet in computer:///
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* path resolution and canonicalization: convert ../ and ./ gracefully
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Partially done. fm_path_new_relative and fm_path_new_child handles . and ..
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Need to show canonicalized paths in location bar.
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* FmFileMenu should provide special menu items for special paths
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Add a "Recover" popup menu item for files in trash:///
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Provide totally different menus for items in computer:///
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Provide "Uninstall" for items in applications:/// (requires integration with package-kit)
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* File searching utility => Subclass FmFolder and provide FmSearchFiles
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The search result can be given to a GtkTreeModel for display.
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* Add filter to FmFolderModel, so we can only show specific files.
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The API can be compatible with GtkFileFilter used by GtkFileChooser.
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The hidden parts can be stored in model->hidden GSequence.
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* Select destination files when copy or move is finished.
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Can use g_object_set_data to associate a FmFolderView with FmJob.
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* Support symlink creation.
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* Add reserved data members to structs to padding for future expansion.
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* Use a forked version of xdg_mime included in glib/gio to do faster mime-type detection.
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* Bug: clicking on detailed view's column to change sorting didn't update the sort sub menu in main menu.
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* Implement our own empty trash API since delete a file in trash:/// with g_file_delete really sucks.
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* Implement our own trash can since the one provided by gvfs really sucks!
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* Maybe we can add a gtk+ module and register our own implementation of GtkFileChooserWidget.
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* Handle self-mangled symlinks.
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* Make fm_launch_paths more user-friendly so pcmanfm can use it to handle files_to_open.
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* Refactor FmFolderView and make a separate class named FmListView, which
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encapsulate a generic composite widget combining ExoIconView and GtkTreeView.
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Then, derive FmFolderView from it.
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when a returned value was allocated or ref_count is increased,
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the API should use _dup_ rather than _get_.
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currently there are inconsistent naming convention among different
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modules. _get_for_, new_from_, _get_from_, and simply _get_ are used
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in different places where APIs have similar behaviors.
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* API redesign: maybe abstract classes like FmBasicView or FmBasicWin were needed.
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in this way, both desktop window and folder views can have the same behavior
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through the same interface.
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get_selected_files();
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* Better clipboard handling => almost done
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Can we be more compatible with GNOME and XFCE?
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Already compatible with KDE/Dolphin
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Partially compatible with gnome and xfce.
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Clipboard operation done by libfm doesn't seem to be noticed by
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nautilus. Cause? maybe related to clipboard monitoring?
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* Custom actions for specific file types.
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integration with archivers is a must have, but how?
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Maybe we can use the implementation proposed by KDE.
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(Compress / Extract are now supported in another way.)
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* GtkFileChooser style path button bar. (can take the one in gtk)
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* Bring some fallback icons (application-x-generic and folder) along with
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the package of libfm to work without icon themes.
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* Warn the user for insufficient disk space before file operations.
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GFileInfo:G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_FREE before calculating
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total size, and store this value in FmFileOpsJob.
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During calculation, if total size already exceeds free space available,
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prompt the user, and also provide an option to skip this.
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* Support "Send To..." => Need to see how thunar does this.
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* Auto-mounting => partially done
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* Support mount specific filesystem encoding in the future. Now we only
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handle UTF-8 for simplicity.
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Those settings can be stored in FmConfig?
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* Inter-process config change notifications:
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fm_config_notify should cache all notfications.
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Then, pack all changed values in a buffer and pass it to a notifier
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function set with fm_config_set_notify_hook.
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fm-gtk can use this hook to send the changed values via X11
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root window properties or dbus.
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* Implement our own gio extension points to override some bad stuff in gio/gvfs.
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Pass highest priority value to g_io_extension_point_implement() if we're
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under LXDE might be a good idea.
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* Add "Create New" to popup menu of folder. => partially done, quite dirty.
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* Show available disk space in status bar => done, but in a slightly dirty way.
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* While create user-custom desktop files, search for existing ones, and only
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add new mime-types to existing user-custom desktop files to prevent creating
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too many duplicated desktop files for the same app.
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* Constraint memory usage of FmIcon cache. Periodically removed rarely
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used items might be needed.
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* Add FmGesture to support mouse gesture. (low priority)
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Maybe this should in another lib to be used in other programs, too.
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* Hide computer:///, network:///, and disable trash:/// if gvfs is not
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* Implement fm_list_concat_glist to add a GList* to FmList or to convert
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a GList to FmList by fm_list_new followed by fm_list_concat_glist()
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* Expose a set of dbus interfaces/services so other applications can call
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libfm to do file operations without being linked with it.
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Or, this should be implemented in the level of file managers, like in pcmanfm?
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If this is going to be supported, write a freedesktop.org spec for it.
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* Display tooltips for folder items
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* Documentation, can be done with gtk-doc
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* Fork gvfs to make it gnome-free.
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* Add gio extension modules to override the ones provided by gvfs.
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* Provide a wizard to clean temporary files from the filesystem to get more
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usable disk space. => a disk cleaner is needed.
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This can be showed to the user when there is not available disk space.
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* Periodically remove thumbnail caches
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Maybe it's a better idea to handle this in disk cleaner wizard.
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* Enable showing .. in list view mode.
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* Write a geany plugin to utilize the FmFolderView.
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* Add a right pane to list all opened folders instead of using tabs.
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Quite useful for wide screen and can save taskbar space.
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Very convinient when you need to work with files in many different folders
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* Support saving currently opened folders as a session, and the saved session
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file can be loaded later by double click on it.
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This is especially useful for developers and can be used for project management
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