Thunar - Development Notes

The following notes are intended to provide additional guidelines and suggestions to assist developers in working with the Thunar file manager.

• How to build and run thunar from source
• Hierarchy of Thunar views
• Testing DBUS Calls
• How to temporarily disable gvfs
• Using the gtk Inspector
• Mouse button magic
• Testing remote locations
• Working with gio/gvfs metadata
• Mime Types
• Test different locale
• Watch file IO
• Having fun with thumbnails
• Performance profiling with gprof
• Code auto formatting
• integration testcases

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