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lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Marlin file manager

Here is early preview of interesting file manager called Marlin.

Currently its of early stage on my home SliTaz (I use Kult-ex's Rolling ISO to start it).

Today I've compiled Marlin without errors, its a victory

It starts, but some icons are missing, and Marlin can't see its plugins, sometimes it shows thumbnails but sometimes no, errors in terminal… But I like idea and look & feel of this file manager!

By the way, Marlin is GTK+3 application, so you'll not see it in official SliTaz 5.0, but we have time to include it to 6.0

Some pictures.

Custom colorization.

Icon view.

Detailed view.

Column view.

Multi-column view!

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Marlin file manager

It's part of the Elementary Desktop enviroment and written in Vala. Check out the other components because it's like GNOME in many ways. Maybe we should write a few of our own components in Vala like Ubuntu did with Unity.

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Marlin file manager

Some good changes

Found app icon and fourth view icon.

Compiled optional packages: tumbler for thumbnails of images, fonts, pdf documents etc., and ffmpegthumbnails for video thumbnails:

JPEG thumbnails.

Fonts thumbnails.

PDF thumbnails.

Video thumbnails (I enlarged icons using Ctrl-+ to maximum).

Added emblems to Faenza icons theme (as separate package) to show overlay emblems:

Link emblem.