Martini 0.1.0 review

Martini is a powerful file manager

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Dave Andreoli

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Martini is a powerful file manager. Martini was written with performance and user-friendliness in mind.

Martini is a file manager for linux, it is written in c and only need Imlib2, glib and fam to work. Martini was written with speed and user-friendly in mind.

The core make use of plugin to display different view (icons, list, image, ecc..). In this way it's very simple to add new views and to use the program in different environment. In fact don't depend by any specific desktop such as gnome or kde.

Martini try to be more freedesktop standard as possible and follow this specification: mime-spec, icon-theme, thumbnail-spec.

For now I have quite finish the GtkIcon and GtkList plugin. There are also, but in really early stage, an Icon plugin that use the new EFL for the best eye-candy experience and a text plugin for all the console lovers.

Martini is really small and fast and don't make use of any special Desktop Environment facilities. It can be used in any environment such gnome, kde, enlightenment, and so on.

The program as an integrated image thumbnailer, and can make use of external thumbnailer helper.

Here are some key features of "Martini":
Performance

Martini is really small and fast and don't make use of any special Desktop

Environment facilities.

It can be used in any environment such gnome, kde, enlightenment, and so on.

Standard

Martini follow this standards to be more compatible as possible:
X Window System Drag and Drop Protocol
Freedesktop.org MIME Shared Info
Freedesktop.org Thumbnail
Freedesktop.org Icon Theme
Rox Application Directory
Freedesktop.org Trash Spec (not yet implemented)
This is the list of the standard drafts that will be implemented when they become more stable.
Freedesktop.org Startup Notification
Freedesktop.org Desktop Entry
Freedesktop.org Clipboard

Device Automouter

Martini make the mount process of any storage device transparent to the user.
You just have to connect your USB-Stick (or any other device) to have it appear in the goto menu
If a device is not yet mounted then pmount is executed trasparently.
HAL is used to find filesystems attached to the system, also when they are not mounted end not listed in the fstab file.

Thumbnails

The program as an integrated image thumbnailer, and can make use of external thumbnailer helper.
As you can see in the screenshots section the image thumbnailer engine can apply fancy (themable) border to the miniature.
The thumbnail are Freedesktop compliant.

File Monitor

Martini use FAM to monitor change made on the filesystem.

Script

Martini use script like nautilus do.

Application Directory

Application directory are self contained applications.
Read more about Application Directory on the Rox Wiki

XWindow Primary Clipboard

Martini support the primary linux-style copy/paste operation.
If you select some file and press the mouse middle button in another directory then the selected file will copyed to the new location in one-click