pcmanfm 0.5.1 is both a bugfix and a feature release. The purpose of this blog post is to pick out the gems why you really want to upgrade. If you have just a few seconds a minimal summary would be, that you should upgrade for:

• fixes to critical bugs
• better keyboard support
• GUI customization

In more detail this is what is worth mentioning to me the most:

• Fixed: copy-paste-rename-escape-truncate bug (#2710035)
• Fixed: Running "pcmanfm foo" now opens directory $PWD/foo (was $HOME/foo before) (#2715642)
• Added: GUI options to ..
  • display file sizes in kilobyte or kibibyte (#2250721)
  • show/hide location bar
  • show/hide side pane buttons
  • show/hide tab bar even when there's just a single tab
  • show/hide tab close buttons
• Added: Keyboard support extended:
  • Tree navigation through and (#2040282)
  • now works like (unassigned before)
  • toggles pane to location pane
  • toggles pane to directory pane
  • and cycle through tabs (#1570102)
  • and cycle through tabs (#2328418)
  • shows jump-to-folder dialog when location bar is hidden

To me this means I can use copy-paste with less worries than in 0.5 and strip down the GUI what I really want to see. In 0.5 you get this view, no matter what:

Below is what I use now, most importantly without these side pane buttons that I came to really hate to have to look at.

Thanks to Eugene Arshinov for making that pain optional (and for most of the other GUI improvements). If you're running Gentoo: The sping overlay has a bumped ebuild already.