About SimFM

This is the homepage of the SimFM project.

Icon with a folder and tools in front

SimFM is a small file manager for the GNU/Linux system and uses the GTK+-2.x toolkit. Its goal is to be small but powerful, efficient and to look nice. Since version 0.6 the whole file manager is coded in the C++ programming language using gtkmm, the C++ bindings for the GTK+ toolkit.

The SimFM file manager was layouted with the Glade GUI Builder for GTK+-2.0. Nevertheless, all the widgets are hand coded. Currently, the source code is not well tested and might not be stable but you can download a test version at the download page.

The project infrastructure is hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org. You can take a look here: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/simfm/

If you have inspiration you want to share or any suggestions, questions or problems, go to the Contact Page and send me a mail.

News

Implemented the mass-renamer
The mass-renamer is now in-place and ready to use. You can use regular expressions to mass-rename files. These expressions are PERL compatible, the PERL interpreter is called with a small code snippet which has the regex inside. The file names are passed to the script and the renamed file names are passed back to SimFM. SimFM does the renaming then.
The SimFM project is still active!
There were no news for quite a long time, but I'm happy to say that SimFM is still in active development and features are continously added (slowly, but they are). I made a big step forward with implementing IPC, only one instance of SimFM will run at a time. If you start another one, the request will be dispatched to the already running instance. Try it!
Feature update: File information dialog
The SVN sources has just been updated and the long awaited file information dialog was added and is ready to use. Download the new sources from SVN (download page), compile and be delighted.
Features page updated
I inserted some nice images and some more text to the features page.
Homepage goes online
Here is the new SimFM Homepage! I hope it will help getting some of you interested in SimFM or any other Project of the Network.