'''PCMan File Manager''' (PCManFM) is a [[file manager]] application developed by Hong Jen Yee from [[Taiwan]] which is meant to be a replacement for [[Nautilus (file manager)|Nautilus]], [[Dolphin (file manager)|Dolphin]] and [[Thunar]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Craciun|first=Dan|title=PCMan File Manager 0.4.5 Review|url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2008071702135RVSW|publisher=Linux Today|accessdate=20 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Georgiadis|first=Panos|title=PCMan – An Alternative File Manager|url=http://www.unixmen.com/pcman-an-alternative-file-manager/|publisher=Unixmen|accessdate=20 February 2013}}</ref> Released under the [[GNU General Public License]], PCManFM is free software. PCManFM is the standard file manager in [[LXDE]], which is also developed by the same author in conjunction with other developers. Since 2010, PCManFM has undergone a complete rewrite from scratch,; so the new PCManFM is totally different from the old 0.5.x series. Buildbuild instructions, setup, and configuration have changed in the process.
Released under the [[GNU General Public License]], PCManFM is intendedfree tosoftware. It followfollows the specifications given by [[Freedesktop.org]] for [[interoperability]] in free software.
Dissatisfied with [[GTK 3+|GTK3]], Hong Jen Yee experimented with [[Qt (framework)|Qt]] in early 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.lxde.org/?p=966 |title=LXDE - PCManFM file manager is ported to Qt? |publisher=Blog.lxde.org |date=1999-02-22 |accessdate=2013-04-27}}</ref> and released the first version of a Qt-based PCManFM on {{dts|2013|03|26}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.lxde.org/?p=990 |title=LXDE - PCManFM Qt 0.1.0 released |publisher=Blog.lxde.org |date=2013-03-27 |accessdate=2013-04-27}}</ref> He clarified, though, that this means no departure from GTK in LXDE, saying “The Gtk+ and Qt versions will coexist”.
