GCommander's homepage

GCommander, a GNOME file manager

GCommander is a two-panel Total/Norton/Volkov/Midnight Commander-like file manager made primarily for the GNOME desktop environment.

This homepage is temporary and in written in README-style. A more polished version will be made when the project is more mature (it was started July 2005).

The project's main goal is to create a two-panel graphical file manager familiar to NC, and its clones' users. This includes full keyboard operation. The other goal is to make GCommander as native to GNOME as possible, this includes using only the most essential GNOME libraries and writing the project in C because GNOME is written in C.
So, the project's three main ideas are GNOME, C and Commander. There are other file managers written in C, for GNOME or resembling Norton, but not all these options at once. Yes, Gnome Commander fulfills there conditions but it's from the Gnome 1 era and Gnome 2 support still isn't implemented. It also requires lots of additional libraries my Ubuntu distribution doesn't have installed by default and I hate that. I also don't like how it handles things such as file selection, although it's a matter of personal taste.
The feature list:

ability to select files with right-click and do simple operations such as Copy, Move, Rename etc.
transparent networking thanks to the GnomeVFS library
a simple text viewer with hex, plaintext and HTML-tags hiding modes (possibly a third-party will be used)
possibly a search feature

The list is still incomplete and will change in time.

The project requires GTK2 (widgets and Glib framework), GnomeVFS (file operations) and libgnomeui (to show appropriate icons).
Here's a screenshot of how GCommander alpha-version looks like:
Screenshot of GCommander

As you can see, the app is still far from being complete. When I write more code, I will update this page and the screenshot. Before then, the project's top priority will be development and not publicity.
GCommander is released under the GNU GPL license but I'm still the copyright holder. This means that you can do anything with the source/binaries as long as you don't violate GPL.

There's no CVS access yet because I don't know yet what features exactly needed and because my internet connection is too expensive to control CVS. You can however download the sources from the project's homepage and send diff patches (contact details below). The sources are however not frequently updated. But until the project is announced terminated, I am working on it, just without a lot of releases or just too slowly. If you want to help the project, you can do one of the following tasks:

Design a logo. The current logo is bad because it was made in 15 minutes, it doesn't mean anything and it's not recognizable. The color set can be inherited though.
Find spelling and grammar mistakes. English is not my native language (I'm Russian) so mistakes are natural to happen. I've made software before which was entirely Russian and the problem was that nobody except Russian people used it. This way, even good projects ended up forgotten. The source code is also English, as well as comments. You are free to send corrected versions to my email (details below).
Make translations. Not at this stage because a lot may change and there isn't a lot of text yet, but this will be another task in the future.
Debug and test. Please note however that GCommander is seriously tested against memory leaks with valgrind. If it gobbles up memory, it's not GCommander but the libraries it uses. If you manage to find a memory leak and you're sure it's my fault and not a bug in the library, send me an email (details below).

Please note that if you want to make a donation, I don't have a PayPal account. They only allow this service in selected countries, and Russia unfortunately isn't one of them.

You can send me an email message through SourceForge's website (if you have a Sourceforge ID). I won't publish my email here because spambots will collect it and then I'll end up cleaning my mailbox. No, wait – my username in Gmail is 'zlogic' (without the quotes), that should give you a hint what my email really is. You can also visit my personal website at http://zlogic.da.ru, please note however that it's entirely in Russian.