e2 pre-release time again, folks
- From: tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:48:11 -0400
There's a new emelfm2 pre-release for your evaluation at
http://emelfm2.net/DownLoads
Some user-visible changes, some infrastructure changes, and bugfixes.
Changelog at http://emelfm2.net/ChangeLog.
The biggest single change is to make all operations on selected items
(so-called "file operations") happen in a separate thread, asynchronously. Most
of those operations (except info, view(again), edit(again), open(with)) are
actually placed into a queue, and executed from there. This is another step
towards future support for "slow" operations like ftp. This change also
provides the main risk of bad behaviour - not a risk to your files (the backend
functionality is essentially the same) but risk of UI freeze. I'm particularly
interested to hear from those of you with multi-CPU/core hardware, which
conceivably might handle some things in a different order, causing such freezes.
Now that we have a queue, we also have actions and bindings to list history and
waiting items. These complement the (running) children list.
Our valiant tester Liviu has recently reported some poor behaviour, which I
cannot replicate nor track down, so any advice on the following will also be
most welcome:
1. Sometimes screen freezes when unrecognised filetype dialog is shown.
2. Editing an item with the internal editor as super(root) user causes a freeze.
3. Sometimes selecting text in the internal viewer freezes temporarily.
4. Running the disk-usage plugin (file.du action) on a symlink can cause a
freeze.
5. Sometimes opening an item (file.open action) does not work.
6. When in a re-visited directory, pressing an arrow key to move the focus in a
filelist can move to the wrong line.
Regards
Tom
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