conflagration-coyote is the codename of "PathFinder" (the name pathfinder is taken already here on code.google).

PathFinder is a student project to create a file browser replacement for Windows Explorer. The goal is to meet all file browsing needs within a single window rather than spawning many multiple windows, as is typical when using Explorer.

The main feature is a special location bar in which users can do queries and path auto-completions for directory and file names.

(This querying feature requires building hashes of all the files and directories on the system. Currently this is done when starting the program. A typical desktop takes about 1 minute to complete this process the first time. Thereafter, the filesystem tables tend to remain in cache, and the program redoes the hashes every few minutes, taking typically a few seconds to do so.)

The MIT License is used rather than the GPL so as to allow use of SWT.

If the concept proves useful, hopefully it will translate easily to Linux.