On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Wiebe van der Worp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15-11-16 17:56, Kim Briggs wrote: >> >> I am a little confused at the status of the file manager Thunar in >> Xubuntu 16.04. This release has a description of "Long Term Support", >> but as far as I can tell, the file manager has been crashing when >> renaming files for about a year now!? > > > For years I loved Dolphin after bad experiences. If you install it today > you'll find out it is a disgrace under Xubuntu. Thunar: not a disgrace, but > yes, I recognize that behaviour, it drove me mad, well, not that bad. It was > the reason to toss Thunar out half a year ago, after waiting for that magic > bug fix that did not come and tired of $_mv. Right now I am using pcmanfm. > Is it fantastic? No, if you perform many drag-drop actions with large files > simultaneously, it will crash too. But at least I can rename my files again > and under normal circumstances it is quite stable. > > Seriously, give pcmanfm a try. And best of this one: There is dual pane > support (F3) which is a time saver. > > All full feature file browsers have their weak spots and changing them from > time to time seems to be unavoidable. >
Thank you all for responding (especially the "I only use emacs" response. It made me nostalgic for the 1990's!). pcmanfm is great and nemo looks good too. But if I'm doing a new install (I don't use "upgrade"), then why not just go right to Mint, which uses nemo? My point is still the same: from Nov - April there is a bug and instead of a changing the default to a reliable file manager, they package the broken one and "make a note of it". I have been a champion / cheerleader for Xubuntu, putting it on friend's old computers that are not at all computer literate. Do you think I'm going to upgrade them to the broken version and have them go through changing the most basic functionality on their computer? I don't think I could explain that to them. -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
