Looking for a new file manager

Im currently using the Fvwm window manager with nautilus. I love the convenience of nautilus but you half to install half of gnome to get it working which sucks.
Id apreciate it if people would post any suggestions as an alternative.
Thanks!

Gullible Jones wrote:
Yes it does... Can it be compiled to directly support inotify though?
(OT, but I do actually wonder if Gamin wasn't the right way to go. Wouldn't it be better to have a library that would interface with applications and use kevent or inotify rather than having applications support both directly?)
Continuing the off-topic:
Yes, that's the way I suuposed we would go - have a library abstract the interfaces, and be easily extendable to whatever the kernel interface-du-jur would be, even supporting the various mechanisms provided by linux and the other *nix kernels that float around.
Unfortuantely, it seems that gamin was something thrown together just to ship something less resource-greedy than fam for the Ubuntu 5.10 release and nothing more. 

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