PCMan File Manager Ideas
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The PCManFM project is proudly announcing its application for Google Summer of Code. This page hosts the ideas for the Google Summer of Code for PCMan File Manager. Please feel free to add your ideas.
If you are interested to join the development of PCManFM at the summer of code and would like to discuss project ideas, please join us on IRC at irc.oftc.net #lxde and #lxde-zh in Chinese. Ideas for the LXDE project are on a seperate project page here: Google Summer of Code 2009.
This website will be continuously updated with more information starting at the week from Monday, March 16, 2009.
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[edit] PCMan File Manager
| Project Proposal | Project Details | Programming Level 1- easy 10-most advanced | Interested to take over task |
| | * Support of samba, ftp, sftp, ... via FUSE | | |
| | * Trash can support | | |
| | * Make desktop icons movable | | |
| | * Customizable file actions (Adding popup menu items for specific mime-types) | | |
| | * Nautilus like spatial mode | | |
| | * Automount for volumes | | |
| | * Separate the folder view from PtkFileBrowser class for better use and extension (For example, dual-pane mode) | | |
| | * implement mouse gesture support | | |
| | * Support RTL layout for desktop icons | | |
| | * POSIX ACL with libacl | | |
| | * When using the address bar (ctrl L). If you want to manually go to a location you should type de address, folder per folder using tab to autocomplete. But you should type manually '/' after every 'tab'. '/' should be added automatically, like in rtorrent browsing, | | |
[edit] Useful Information
[edit] Required Skills for development
- Programming language: C
- Toolkit: Gtk+
