Sunflower!

# Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux It is intended to be an easy-to-use and powerful file manager that seamlessly integrates into the GNOME desktop environment (but not limited to. DownloadCurrent version: 0.361 http://sunflower-fm.org/download
Tomorrow GTK 3.22 is being released. This is a huge step towards releasing GTK3 version of Sunflower as stable release of this library has been eagerly awaited. GTK developers have made a public statement https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk
that 3.22 will be a long term support release. This provides an excellent target to support.

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