• TODO

TODO

tasks that always apply

• update documentation and homepage/wiki/on-line user guide
• find solutions for FIXMEs in the code

• find & fix memory leaks

probable changes

• additional translations (ja, fr, de, ru exist now) Volunteers welcome !
• code restucturing and clean up
• use libmagic directly, instead of shell 'file' command

worth considering

• support regular expressions in rename-plugin
• update tracker-plugin as tracker's API matures
• provide atk assistive-technology support in all relevant places

low priority things that can be done when there's time and interest

• add missing API documentation
• complete documentation about action arguments
• support non-english-ascii letters (replacing dDfFpP etc) in macros
• find a way to have those small lines in the treeview as kde/qt or windows provide them
• add tooltips to context menus where now missing
• find a way to tap into shell's completion process, to enhance command-line tab completion (not directly possible with bash)

changes that may not be worth the effort

• interrogate system mime data (but current generic info is about items, not about their associated commands)
• native support for virtual file systems (better to rely on gio-mount, gnome-vfs-mount, avfs/fuse etc ?)
• strictly incremental update of displayed filelists (if a reliable change-monitor ever becomes readily and widely available ...)
• show filetype/dir icons in file lists
• undo, for completed file operations (needs lots more cacheing of information about processed items and anything affected by the operation)
• custom formatting of hyperlinks displayed in the output pane
• re-write copy and move functions so that cpbar and mvbar pauses can take effect immediately

known bugs/problems

• some default keybindings might not work, if other things' bindings prevail
• auto-refreshing file panes (without FAM/gamin) does not notice item size, mode, ownership changes (consequence of the way the fs works)
• auto-refreshing with gamin does not notice most changes involving symlinks (gamin bug)
• auto-refreshing with gamin and gnome (at least) and dnofify backend does not notice changes to the trash dir (gamin bug)
• sizing of any command-line combobox in a vertical toolbar is illogical (wishlist = gtk support for "drop-across")
• hard links are processed as separate files
• refreshing a filelist changes the access time of the displayed directory
• for some? gtk versions, recreating filelists creates leaked X memory (gtk bug?) which, if repeated too often, can lead to swap-thrashing and even a hang
• gtk (in later versions at least) behaves badly when dragging a column-header boundary to change the column width - at first it thinks it's dragging selected item(s) !
• the output pane captures stdout and stderr messages from child processes, but not from any other process started by a child ("grandchild")
• a command which in turn causes another command to be run using the same glib functionality (g_spawn_async() etc) can hang, because completion of the spawned child command is not reported to its parent application - maybe some intermingling of child exit signals