Working with files is one of the most frequent operations on a desktop. Although shell provides great tools for all those file operations (like copy, rm, mv, mkdir, etc.), sometimes user finds himself in a place where he needs a GUI to perform these things. Nowadays desktop is not imaginable without a good graphical file manager.

As Enlightenment is standing to be a desktop shell, it has to have a nice file manager. Since E developers understand that, they already have started the work. But there is still a lot to do -- a fifth of Enlightenment TODO is related to the file manager. It is necessary to finish it.

First, it will be very nice for users of E to have a choice of stable applications to fulfil their file manager needs out of box.

Second, with the power of Enlightenment Foundation Libraries it is possible to create a set of different (from user's point of view) file managers, which are very flexible and fancy. And not write each of them from scratch.

Finally, working on this should bring Enlightenment 0.17 closer to release.