CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG

v1.3.0 (2021-08-14)

Release Notes for v1.3.0:

Release Notes:

This release improves stability, performance, and also brings a few new features:

• 1 new major feature
• 2 new minor features
• 12 other improvements
• 4 fixes

New major features:

• Feature: Customizable window transparency effect | e54418a

New minor features:

• Feature: add new shortcuts: addDirItemsForCopying, addDirItemsForMoving, which allow you to copy / move items from multiple different directories at once | 5ef4a9a
• Feature: add ability to create symlinks, hard links and Windows .lnk shortcuts from the context menu by pressing different modifiers | 478b3dc

Other improvements:

• UI: added new artwork for home banner: "Ice Cave by Wang Jie" | 2d40d4c
• UI: added new artwork for home banner: "Slum by Vladimir Manyukhin" | cdbfefd
• UX: the current directory will now reload immediately after deleting / trashing items | 17cceba
• UI: notification cards will now have a nicer and more consistent design | 65b9a41
• UI: items in the range selection will now be highlighted immediately when Shift key is pressed | 0ca8ff2
• UI: filter field menu design was improved | 2a6ef8f
• UX: you can now specify a custom path when creating a new link / shortcut | dc7ae34
• UX: icons in context-menu will now dynamically change when you press different key modifiers, and their tooltips will look nicer and more consistent | 106191f
• UX (for developers): All copied paths will now be automatically wrapped with quotes. On Windows, selected paths will now be copied with single backward \ slashes, or with double backward \\ slashes by pressing a key modifier | 86695f2
• UX: zoomIncrease shortcut will now also be triggered with Ctrl + Plus on the numpad | 4f90117
• Dev: Code optimizations and refactoring
• A few other small improvements in UI

Fixed:

• UX: fixed the issue with archiver feature not working on Linux and MacOS because of bin permissions | 1d646ca
• UI: the animation of navigation panel will now work correctly on home page | 24ebe35
• UI: removed excessive bottom padding when the bottom clipboard toolbar is shown | d78d7e8
• UX: fixed the issue with items getting added to copy / move clipboard when you select other items | 51f345a

v1.2.0 (2021-06-23)

Release Notes for v1.2.0:

⚠Warning: the app is still in early development stage, use with caution! Before using the app, it's recommended, to copy important files to your cloud storage or an external drive in case something goes wrong. Try not to use it for working with important files, until it's thoroughly tested.

Milestones:

💗 (Goal: 1/500 individuals & 0/20 companies supporters) The first supporter joined our community on Patreon: Houston Photo Restoration When we meet the goal, I will be able to dedicate more of my time improving the app, and add new features more frequently.

New minor features:

• New setting: switch: "display hidden files". Allows you to toggle visibility of files with hidden attribute. | Contributors: @mattm-malone, @aleksey-hoffman | PR: #75
• New setting: switch: "launch app on system login" | b018abc
• New setting: switch: "launch app in hidden state" | 3cf3f8b
• New setting: switch: "download updates automatically" | da5330b
• New setting: switch: "install updates automatically" | da5330b
• New setting: menu: "custom pointer buttons actions". Allows you to choose the behavior of mouse buttons 3 and 4 | Fixes #35 | 1ec99bf
• Shortcuts: new local shortcut F5: reloadDirectory | Fixes #81 | 4a26f11
• UX: Display read-only and immutable directory items | ace9953
• Archiver: Added support for more file formats: | 774bbcf
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM.
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR, Z.

Other improvements:

• UI / community: Added 3 new default artworks for the home banner | 0c251ec
• Community: Added support links (icons) to the artwork cards, so users can easily find a way to support the artists | 3b73b1f
• Animations:
  • UX: Removed page transition animation to make the app feel more responsive and improve user workflow speed by 300ms on every page transition | 3fae2d0
  • UX: Home page transition can now be disabled | 80ffd69
• Notifications:
  • UX: Notifications will now have a color indicator, making it possible to check the operation status without even reading the notification title or message. The indicator was added only to a few notifications, more will be added soon | 4fb9b3e
  • UX: Notifications will now pause their timer when hovered by the cursor, preventing them from closing before you finish reading them | 4fb9b3e
  • UX: Dismissed notifications / operations will now be displayed in the notification menu. This will make it possible to, for example, undo some file operations a few minutes after the operation was finished, or interact with a dismissed ongoing operation (e.g. cancel an ongoing download event), etc. | 4fb9b3e
  • UX: Notifications for archiving operations will now display a progress bar | fd7a643
  • UX: Now, when the current directory is reloaded, a notification will be shown | 3450044
• UX: Archiving operations (extraction) can now be canceled | fd7a643
• UX: Setting "double-click delay" now has min, max values: 200-1000ms | 27c7570
• UX: Delete existing statistics when the "store statistics" setting is disabled | 1fe62de
• UX: Enable "store statistics" setting by default so the features that depend on it work out of the box | 236410e
• UX: Show a message (instructions) on the timeline page if the "store statistics" setting is disabled | 56f4d43
• UX: Show the error message if URL download fails | 9ecdf7d
• UX: The app will now handle all unsupported characters in the file names | ef1f469
• Dev: Upgrade dependencies | 084cf48, acfb92c
• Dev / UX: refactor shortcuts dialog UI and code | f94d661
• Dev / UX: refactor quickView window code | 0a354b9
• Dev: Small improvements and fixes in the code

Fixed:

• UI: Fixed: noticeable UI shifting when opening the settings page | 748b33d
• UI: Fixed: tooltip animations were not working as intended | 876769d
• UX: Fixed: the app was creating multiple instances when it was re-opened from taskbar / desktop / start menu icon | Fixes #7 | 50643ef
• UX: Fixed: directories containing read-only items were not loading on the 1st time they were opened | ace9953
• UX: Fixed: auto updater was not working in 1.1.0 | 3120880
• UX: Fixed: auto updater was not checking for updates | 35dfacc
• UX: Fixed: image thumbnail generator stops working when it encounters an unsupported file type | d3a9bc7
• UX: Fixed: filter was not working on the "notes" page | 9241bd4
• UX: Fixed: file downloading was not working in "selective drop" mode | a711a1e
• UX: Fixed: URL downloading was not working at all | c40e9de
• UX: Fixed: "UI scaling" setting not being saved to storage | Fixes #103 | 01a90a0
• UX: Fixed: "home banner visibility" setting not being saved to storage | Fixes #76 | 73cdc75
• UX: Fixed: notifications with updating content couldn't be hidden | 4fb9b3e
• UX: Mac, Linux: Fixed: navigating directories via address bar breaks navigator | 0947dee
• UX: Mac, Linux: Fixed: updater couldn't check / download updates from within the app | b2afc2e

Notes

• Linux and MacOS builds are still quite broken. Some features don't work as expected. The issues will be gradually fixed in future updates.

Supporters

💗 This release was made possible by my Patreon supporters. They are the reason free, open-source software can exist. Show them some love, check out their work:

GENEROUS SUPPORTERS

Houston Photo Restoration

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v1.1.0 (2021-05-27)

Release Notes for v1.1.0:

⚠Warning: the app is in early development stage, use with caution! Before using the app, it's recommended, to copy important files to your cloud storage or an external drive in case something goes wrong. Try not to use it for working with important files, until it's thoroughly tested.

Milestones:

🔼 by v2.0.0 (Oct 2021): (1/20) Add 20 more new major features

New major features:

• Quick view: this feature allows you to quickly open selected files in a preview window, rather than an external program (which usually takes longer). Quick view can be opened with Space shortcut or from the context menu. Supported: images, videos, audio, PDF, most plain text formats. 939d95c

New minor features:

• Option to open directory items with single click 08d4dce

Fixed

• Fixed "Device not ready" error (thanks to @btglr). #29
• Fixed MacOS build problem (thanks to @mattm-malone). #26
• Fixed the issue with thumbnail generation caused by unsupported image types. 9afcf3a
• Fixed the issue with some processes running after app.quit() event [ce18e91](https://github.com/aleksey-hoffman/sigma-file-manager/commit/ce18e9134617abc198eaf0570186b1e308e21c7b
• Fixed the issue with dir-item-rename notification displaying information in wrong order. c808341
• Fixed the issue with navigator operation "move item" which was copying items instead d1c3019
• Fixed the issue with navigator operation "move item" not working for directories (progress bar is temporarily removed from the item transfer notifications) 7580fb8
• Fixed shortcuts that weren't working 7b5fb51
• Fixed the issue with navigator item range selection not being triggered when Shift is pressed before the first item was selected e620976

Other improvements

• Added "navigator tips" guide c4d4df6
• Added ability to navigate directory horizontally from keyboard (grid layout) cdde373

Notes

• The Linux and MacOS builds are still quite broken. Some features don't work as expected. The issues will be fixed in future updates

Support

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