SpaceFM removed from Excalibur

SpaceFM is a multi-pane file manager and was added builtin to EasyOS Excalibur-series in July 2025:

https://bkhome.org/news/202507/spacefm-file-manager-now-in-easyos.html

It was included in response to requests for a multi-pane file manager, that ROX-Filer isn't. However, it is very much inferior to ROX, and the multi-pane feature does not really bring any usability improvement compared to ROX. ROX is multi-window, which achieves the same end.

Of course, you could say that a certain file manager supports partition-mounting, network connection, etc.; however, those features are elsewhere in EasyOS and ROX doesn't duplicate existing functionality.

Get accustomed to using ROX, and there isn't the slightest advantage of SpaceFM or, in my opinion, any of the other file managers.

There was a recent report on the forum that partition mounting isn't working. Hmm, that did work back in July 2025. Anyway, I currently don't have the inclination to bug-fix it. So it is now gone. Still, there as a PET package, so you can install it if you want to debug it.    

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