Evidence File-Manger AI-rewrite for modern Linux

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Hello everyone! If these kind of posts are not allowed here, feel free to delete it.

Im a huge fan of the Evidence file manager for old Enlightenment, that came with Elive back in the day, for a few years now. I always wanted to use it on my modern Linux system cause it looked so cool :slight_smile: I posted about his topic a few years back here.

Back then, I tried to fix the code myself but i quickly realised i had no idea what i was doing and gave up. The gevas (GTK/Evas) backend was using a lot of deprecated functions. Now with Coding LLMs i gave it another shot and i had decent luck. Mistral hosted GLM-5.3 did a rebuild of the old Evas and Ecore backend for new EFL that produces a more or less identical UI.

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I also let it fix a lot of other broken features. Some features where using backends that do not exist anymore (gnomecanvas, epeg, ebg) these where removed. Also some themes needed old Edje.

So big disclaimer, this is probably unstable code written by AI. I only tested it a little bit on my CachyOS system. I also didnt have an old Linux system that i could use to check if the new programm was working like the original one. I only used the screenshots on the old website as a reference.

There is also a new GTK3 backend in the code (--with-gtk3), but it feels unstable compared to the old GTK2 so i would not recommend using it.

I also let the AI "modernize" the clipboard functionality so it can be used with other modern file-managers.

According to the AI, there was a functionality to play Videos inside the file manager using emotion. It looks a bit out of place, so im not sure if it was actually there or if its an hallucination. Its in there now.

If you want to check it out yourself: GitHub - TraubeMinze734/evidence-remaster: This is an AI rewrite of the Evidence file manager for Enlightenment, which was originally written by Azundris in 2005. · GitHub

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Lovely! beautiful :slight_smile: I also love Evidence very much, is the first FM that Elive had, its a must to include it back in the elive repos :wink:

Are you going to maintain this project ? I can make a build of an Elive package pointing to your repo.

Yes, EFL can make the filemanager to play videos directly inline, you can actually ask to implement this feature too.

IMHO, for Elive we don't really need the gtk* backend, the nicest thing Evidence had was its EFL interface

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I created 2 issues to improve, glm 5.3-flash is really good :slight_smile:

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It did look cool back in the day but does, sort of look outdated now. ::slightly_smiling_face:

Not sure if there is even a choice there anymore. :thinking:

There is that function in the current EFM on E27, albeit I have mixed feelings about that function. It slowed down my searching every time I passed over with the mouse.
And sometimes scare the bejeezus out of me, cause it also played the audio. :shocked:

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A bit late of a thought ..... but considering EFM is in a bit of bad state and no hurry (by the devs) to fix it:

It might be an idea to focus on "evidence" as the file manager for future Elive Enlightenment. :thinking:

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A replacement of Thunar by Evidence could be a really cool (and unique) thing for Elive for sure