NewBreeze 3.0.0 Alpha2(Qt Filemanager)
A fast and light-weight file manager based on Qt
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Qt5 builds are now supported
Note: NewBreeze 3.0 is in the oven. Expect several changes..!!
Built on top of the Powerful Qt4/Qt5 GUI Toolkit, this file manager is sleek, stylish and fast.
Some of its features are
- Fast startup and browsing
- Folder, text, html, image, odt, and pdf quick preview
- File Association support
- Provides Categorized List, Icon and Details View
- Sleek side panel showing drives and boomarks
- Full drag and drop support (N/A)
- Plugin architecture to enrich NewBreeze further
- Applications and Catalog View
- Auto update devices list
- Custom Folder Icons and Thumbnail Preview
- Complete mime-icon support
- BreadCrumbs Navigation Bar
- Custom Actions
- Inline terminal
- SingleApplication Mode for resource sharing
Please READ the ReleaseNotes for information on the new features
Please READ the src/Data/Credits.html to see the help I got
Notes for compiling - linux:
- Download and Extract the tar file
- Go to NewBreeze
- Open the terminal and type: qmake && make
Dependencies:
- Qt4/Qt5
- libmagic and libmagic-dev
- zlib
- liblzma
- libbzip2
- libarchive
Known Bugs
- SegmentationFault in NBIconView ::aboveIndex(...), ::belowIndex(...)
List of shortcuts
For a list of shortcuts check the readme file, or press Ctrl+I
Upcoming
- Application Editor ( Desktop file editor )
- Any other feature you request for... :)
changelog:
Version 3.0.0 Alpha
- Feature: Per-folder View options
- Feature: Scaling for NBIconView
- Feature: NBArchiveDialog helps to create an archive
- Feature: New File/Folder encryption plugin
- Archive creation and extraction are performed using QtConcurrent::run
- Plugins can now are part of the NewBreeze source tree
- NewBreeze uses QtSingleApplication for one instance multiple windows
- Redesigned UI for better code maintenance
- Redesigned NBCrumbsBar (formerly, NBBreadCrumbsBar)
- Redesigned NBSidePanel
- View delegates are now view agnostic
- NBIconView mouseEvent handlers are rewritten
- Selections handling is better
- NBDialog polished for better appearance
- NBMessageDialog is a now a subclass of QMessageBox
- Categories can be hidden, selected/deselected with single click
- Removed default transparency, better integration with the native desktop
- QuickMenuBar removed, as its more of a hinderance
- UtilityBar (custom title bar) removed, uses native title bar
- The /proc/pid/cwd link points to the current directory
- PeekPlugins interface has been rewritten to enable support for dynamic loading of any plugin.
- NBProcessManager replaces NBIOManager with better functionality [To be done]
- File copy/move is now based on QtSolutions QtCopyDialog [To be done]
- BugFix: Unmounting a drive is possible when NB3 is open
- BugFix: Removed buggy tabs
For older changes, check the ChangeLog file
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