Comment 173 for bug 1512120

(In reply to slumbergod from comment #99)
> Offering a bounty is a nice idea but I still think this requires something
> bigger. We really need to crowdfund to hire a software engineer to re-write
> a significant chunk of code rather than just work out a single fix.
>
> It might even lead to some of the other papercut bugs getting sorted (I know
> I've posted bug reports for several small "weird" behaviours that shouldn't
> be considered "normal" behaviour in a file manager.
>
> Too bad thunar is written in C. If it was Python or something higher level
> we'd probably have these things sorted because more people would be able to
> contribute (myself included).

If a significant portion of it needs to be rewritten anyway, maybe it could be worth considering porting it to another language entirely. I agree that Python would be an excellent candidate.

It would make development much easier and as you said, take care of the many papercuts that Thunar does indeed currently have. Plus, Thunar needs to be ported to GTK3 eventually anyway.

I like C, but writing GUI applications in it is a nightmare.