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vjekoslav

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About vjekoslav

Working on fast & modern file explorer https://filepilot.tech

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    Comment #43219785

    File Explorer on Windows 7, and Windows 7 in general, provided a far better (and faster) user experience. It's been downhill since then.

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    Comment #43143964

    Yes, there's a command called "Empty Trash Items", which you can assign to any hotkey or access via the command palette. You can also right click on the trash in the left sidebar.

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    Comment #43137593

    Sorry, I based this on your comment "If you can accept a Rust dependency". I haven't actually looked into it yet, but I'll check it out, thanks for sharing. However, I'd still pref…

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    Comment #43137581

    I'll check it out, thanks!

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    Comment #43137460

    Hello! I can't promise anything on this topic yet, it's on my list, but it's fairly low priority right now. The program was written in C with no dependencies, so introducing a huge…

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    Comment #43106656

    Speed, modern UI, rearangable panels & tabs, globaly accesable and remmapable all actions via cmd palette, GoTo window, batch rename... And many more things to come. Since this was…

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    Comment #43104324

    Way more maintainable than anything from MS that I'd have to deal with.

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    Comment #43104305

    Yes, the separation between folders and files is a toggleable option. You can sort by date modified. Also, you should try it yourself, it's in free beta. :)

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    Comment #43104053

    Hey, thanks! Yes, I know about Fman. I’ve tried pretty much all file explorers on Windows, a fair number on Linux, and fewer on macOS. I watched that video a couple of years ago, i…

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    Comment #43101937

    Yes, proper localization will be probably be included in first official V1 version.

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    Comment #43100927

    Thank you!

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    Comment #43100918

    It does not integrate with Everything. It's already blazingly fast with the regular WinAPI for indexing. However, MFT indexing (which Everything uses) will be added as built-in sup…

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    Comment #43100875

    Are you running it inside a VM or Wine?

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    Comment #43100869

    It will come to other OSes in time. The Windows platform layer is decoupled from everything else, such as rendering and UI, so I only need to write platform-specific code for other…

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    Comment #43100855

    FP has been mostly tested and improved for mapped network drives, as the focus has been, and still is, on providing a very solid local experience. Direct network access (and better…

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    Comment #43100839

    PDF previews are not supported yet, but they are planned.

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    Comment #43100834

    If everything goes well with Windows and the project becomes financially stable, a macOS version is planned.

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    Comment #43100826

    It's an open possibility :)

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    Comment #43100823

    Unfortunately, I only support Latin and Cyrillic for now. But full unicode support will come in the future.