File Browser

version 2.5.1: Mar 30 2022

• Hotfix for OpenRepos: fixed disabling sandboxing (Sailjail)

version 2.5.0: Mar 30 2022

• Important note:
• - the Jolla store version cannot show all files in Sailfish 4.3 and later
• - sharing, PDF viewing, and storage settings are disabled in Jolla store
• - please install the unrestricted build from OpenRepos if you need all features
• New translations: Polish, Indonesian
• Updated translations: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Estonian, Chinese (China), French, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Spanish
• Updated list of contributors
• Added support for backups using MyBackup
• Added new setting to show/hide solid window background
• Added a proper "About" page
• Improved image loading times and error messages
• Improved discoverability of global vs. local settings
• Improved error handling on image/video preview page
• Improved app icon and action icons
• Improved logging with info about restricted/enabled features
• Improved opening files externally
• - installing RPM and APK files should be possible again
• - a possibly upcoming "open with" system feature will be available right away
• Improved detection of optional features:
• - internal PDF viewer will be properly disabled if sailfish-office is not installed
• - sharing will be disabled if no supported sharing method can be found
• Fixed sharing on Sailfish <= 3.4 and Sailfish >= 4.x
• Fixed opening directories in non-Harbour builds
• Fixed image rotation for JPEG files
• Fixed zoom-by-double-tap for images with almost the same dimensions as the screen
• Fixed "Open" instead of "Install" showing for APK files
• Changed a settings key: "gallery" mode must be re-enabled once
• Updated config file location for Sailjail compatibility

version 2.4.3: Feb 17 2021

• New translations: Dutch (Belgium), Estonian
• Updated translations: Slovak, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål, Chinese (China), Swedish, Spanish
• Fixed double tap to zoom images of square and almost square dimensions
• Fixed horizontal mode
• - File Browser can now be used in all orientations
• - Please file a bug report if startup fails and a note about "delaying initialization" appears in the log.
• - Part of the fix uses a workaround for a system bug and may break unexpectedly.
• Improved image page animations

version 2.4.2: Feb 06 2021

• New translations: Czech, Slovak, Hungarian
• Added support for opening directories with xdg-open
• Updated list of contributors

version 2.4.1: Feb 01 2021

• Note: translations are now managed using Weblate (https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/harbour-file-browser/) - contributors welcome!
• New translation: Norwegian Bokmål
• Updated translations: Spanish, French, Swedish, Chinese, German, ...
• Added item count to folders in listings
• Added link target to files in listings
• Changed file size display units to SI units (i.e. powers of 2, KiB=1024B instead of kB=1000B)
• Improved performance of file size preview and selecting files
• Fixed label colors in permissions dialog, rename dialog, transfer dialog, file preview page
• Fixed hiding empty file info fields
• Fixed creating numbered file names when pasting over existing files with '.' in their path

version 2.4.0: Jan 12 2021

• Finally out of beta
• - Configuration is now stored at ~/.config/harbour-file-browser. Copy your beta configuration from ~/.config/harbour-file-browser-beta to keep custom shortcuts.
• - You can safely remove the folder ~/.local/share/harbour-file-browser-beta.
• - Updated root mode for non-beta release (packaged separately)
• - Note: it might be necessary to manually remove the old packages harbour-file-browser-beta and harbour-file-browser-root-beta
• Updated translations: Swedish, Chinese, German
• Greatly improved performance when loading folders and moving/deleting files
• - before: loading a folder with 5000 images (sorted by modification time) took ~5 seconds, moving/deleting 1 file took ~8 seconds; with times climbing exponentially
• - now: loading the same folder (any sorting mode) is nearly instantly, moving/deleting too
• - now: sorting mode will no longer noticeably affect performance (sorting by modification time was by far the slowest mode before)
• - note: when deleting/moving/filtering more than 200 files the view will lose its position and jump to the top
• Greatly improved filtering performance
• - before: filtering a folder with 5000 images took ~20 seconds, scrolling was nearly impossible
• - now: the same folder filters nearly instantly, scrolling is smooth
• - note: the folder listing will be updated when closing the top menu
• Improved navigation performance: switching between folders should feel much more responsive now
• Fixed a bug causing page navigation by swiping to break
• Fixed performance issues when opening view preferences
• Fixed keyboard flickering when opening view preferences
• Fixed selection panel being closed while one file was still selected
• Fixed file pages breaking after file(s) have been moved away
• Fixed folder listings jumping to the top after deleting or transferring files and after changing settings
• Fixed highlighting files when the context menu is opened, a thumbnail is being shown, or gallery mode is activated
• Added support for simple wildcards when filtering
• - use '*' to match any one or more characters
• - use '?' to match any single character
• - use '[abc]' to match one character of the group in square brackets
• - to include a literal '*' or '?' you have to enclose it in square brackets
• Added proper user feedback while loading folders
• Added indicators for files that are being moved/deleted
• Added an informational placeholder when no file matched the filter
• Improved suggestions highlighting when manually editing the current path
• Improved system integration: "open storage settings" menu item will only be shown if storage module is installed
• Improved navigation menu: duplicate history entries should not happen anymore
• Improved licensing: the project is now 'reuse'-compliant (cf. https://reuse.software/spec/)
• *** For developers:
• Added and improved some documentation
• Added a new worker thread class for loading, refreshing, and sorting folders in the background
• Added modification time info from stat(3) to StatFileInfo
• Implemented custom sorting by modification time, as QDir's performance is terrible
• Implemented a hashing/caching algorithm for partially refreshing folder listings
• Improved icon rendering: code can be easily reused in other projects
• Clarified licensing for all files: documentation is GFDL, some files are CC0 (all files have proper SPDX license headers now)

version 2.3.2-beta: Jan 07 2021

• Fixed deleting files via context menu
• Fixed clearing selection while filtering
• Added a menu icon to directory headers (can be disabled in the settings)
• Improved description text for adding custom transfer targets
• Refactored page navigation and navigation history (even good things can be improved)
• Fixed some console noise

version 2.3.1-beta: Dec 04 2020

• Updated translations: Swedish, Chinese
• Changed file info icon to the default system icon
• Changed toolbar icons to 112x112px instead of 64x64px
• Fixed height and thickness of toolbar icons (lines) to match system icons
• Fixed file previews so file icons don't scale too much
• Fixed an error message caused by string formatting

version 2.3.0-beta: Nov 22 2020

• Updated translations: Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, German, English (thanks to contributors!)
• Implemented navigation history: use the directory popup to navigate back and forward (see below)
• Added support for adding shortcuts to a manually entered path (bottom pulley on the shortcuts page)
• Added support for adding custom transfer targets by path (top pulley in the transfer dialog)
• Added a new directory popup (similar to the old one from version <= 1.8.0)
• - open it by tapping on the page title in a directory listing
• - navigation history: go back, forward, and up ("up" is the same as swiping left)
• - quickly toggle viewing hidden files
• - edit the current path (or e.g. paste a path from clipboard)
• Added setting on how to abbreviate/elide filenames
• Added preview for SQLite databases
• Improved performance on many pages (directory listings, search, shortcuts, navigation, ...)
• Fixed a large amount of visual bugs, inconsistencies, and papercuts
• Fixed many small bugs concerning edge cases in nagivation, settings, etc.
• Fixed accidentally opening the keyboard when switching to the sort/view settings
• Allowed rotating all pages (it is still not working perfectly, but this might be a bug in the system)
• Fixed handling selections: selections will be cleared less often, e.g. helping with sorting files
• Fixed filtering files case-insensitively
• Fixed keeping search results without restarting the search after checking a file
• Implemented rudimentary video error handling (when previewing files)
• Improved error handling in file previews (rpm, sqlite, zip, ...)
• Improved file type detection and file icons
• Improved support for thumbnails (e.g. PDF and video files can have thumbnails now)
• Added and improved documentation
• Clarified licenses: GPL v3 (or later) for code, CC-BY-SA 4.0 for graphics
• Prepared for first non-beta release in Jolla store
• *** For developers:
• Restructured the development environment
• Implemented a new versatile dialog for manually entering paths, including completion suggestions
• Implemented different search types in the search engine
• Added support for limiting the amount of search results
• Added directory info properties to the file data backend

version 2.2.2-beta: May 29 2020

• Fixed saving settings when the settings file did not exist
• Fixed showing disk space under SFOS 3.3.x.x
• Fixed rare possibility of duplicate bookmark entries
• Fixed bookmarks vanishing when the user renames the configuration folder while the app is running
• Fixed calculating size info and counting files for links or directories containing links
• Fixed copying hidden files when copying a directory recursively
• Improved user notice when a link is broken
• Improved directory/link state detection (might help with a bug regarding CIFS mounts)
• *** For developers:
• Internal API changes
• - Documented Engine::isUsingBusybox()
• - Added Settings::keys()

version 2.2.1-beta: May 02 2020

• Added root mode (packaged separately)
• Fixed inconsistent default setting for "View/UseLocalSettings"
• Added "open storage settings" to bottom pulley of shortcuts page
• Disabled opening system settings from shortcuts for Jolla store and when running as root

version 2.2.0-beta: May 01 2020

• Fixed showing file info page under SailfishOS 3.3.x.x
• Fixed the same for symlinks to directories on another partition
• Increased performance when changing directories
• Shortcut to Android data will be hidden if the directory is not available
• *** For developers:
• Internal API changes
• - Removed some small helper functions
• - Refactored and split scripts and libraries
• - Removed Engine::homeFolder()
• - Renamed Engine::androidSdcardPath() to Engine::androidDataPath()

version 2.1.1-beta: Apr 19 2020

• Added support for opus audio files: recognize them as audio, and allow internal playback
• Removed trying to show thumbnails for PDF files and videos: the system thumbnailer does not support it

version 2.1.0-beta: Jan 12 2020

• Added file icons for compressed files and for PDF files
• Implemented a new "Gallery Mode": images will be shown comfortably large, and all entries except for images, videos, and directories will be hidden
• Implemented previewing videos directly
• - Note that this is intentionally kept simple. Use an external app for anything other than quickly checking what the file contains.
• - Thumbnail images for videos are not available as they are not supported by the system thumbnailer.
• Added support for USB OTG devices
• - Any device mounted below /run/media/nemo will now be shown together with the SD card
• - Added a bottom pulley to the shortcuts page to manually refresh the list of devices
• - External storage settings can now directly be accessed via the context menu (see below)
• Improved usability of bookmarks and shortcuts
• - Implemented manually sorting bookmarks
• - Fixed wrong icon for deleting bookmarks
• - Fixed bookmarks when transferring files
• - Moved shortcut to Android storage to the main "Locations" section
• Improved settings handling to be more robust
• - Please note that all *customized* bookmark names will be reset *once* after installing this update
• - Fixed a bug where bookmark names (not the bookmarks themselves) could get lost
• - Added runtime-caching of settings to handle missing permissions
• - Fixed changing view settings in read-only directories
• - Restricted saving local view settings to /home/nemo/* and /run/media/nemo/*, so even if File Browser is run as root, no unwanted files will be written anywhere
• - Improved settings handling to be more intuitive when resetting a local value to the global default
• not Harbour-compliant changes:
• - Added showing PDF files directly from the file page (swipe right) using Sailfish Office
• - Added context menu to external devices (bookmark page) to directly open system settings
• Fixed a typo on the sorting options page
• Added option to copy current path to clipboard to the main bottom pulley
• Fixed showing path in pulley when adding a bookmark via shortcuts page
• Performance improvements in
• - loading directories
• - switching between thumbnail modes
• - previewing large images
• *** For developers:
• Internal API changes
• - Moved settings from Engine to standalone settings handler
• - Replaced separate method for detecting SD cards by method collecting all mounted devices

version 2.0.1-beta: Dec 30 2019

• Updated translations: Swedish, Chinese, Spanish
• (other translations still need updating - contributors welcome!)

version 2.0.0-beta: Dec 12 2019

• Performance improvements in
• - changing directories
• - loading directories
• - applying new settings
• Implemented sharing files (non-Harbour version only)
• Added file transfer option (quickly copy/move/link multiple files to multiple destinations)
• Added shortcuts page instead of quick-links menu (swipe right)
• Added bookmarks option (add from pulley or context menu, access on shortcuts page)
• Show content preview of file immediately as attached page (swipe right)
• Improved pulley menu order on file page
• Moved some entries from pull down menu to push up menu on directory page
• Added more sorting options for directory listings
• Added setting to sort case-sensitively or case-insensitively
• Simplified applying directory settings (top pulley or tap on directory title)
• Fixed calculating disk space usage
• Improved file date/time info
• Added setting to use local view settings for all directories (.directory files from desktop file managers)
• Improved selection panel and context menu in directory listings
• Added file actions (copy/rename/share/... to file page)
• Added quick-filter option to directory listings (open top pulley to maximum)
• Improved rename dialog
• - disabled text prediction
• - added support for renaming multiple files at once
• - added check if file already exists
• Improved horizontal app layout
• Implemented file preview thumbnails
• Added image viewer page (swipe right from file page)
• Added "shift" selection of multiple files (long press on file entry to start)
• Added cover actions ('search' and 'show shortcuts')
• Added support for selecting text file preview (just like in the Notes app)
• Implemented computing size of all selected file/directories (with properties page)
• Implemented computing directory size (visible from properties page)
• Implemented opening new windows
• Improved launcher entry
• Improved support for light ambiences
• Improved and added some custom icons
• Added support for animations in image viewer (e.g. GIF files)
• Added list of contributors (swipe right from settings page)
• Added support for initial directory as command line argument
• Added settings page as attached page to shortcuts page (swipe right)
• Added root mode app icon and highlight cover when running as root
• Re-built app icon as SVG and generated new png images
• Improved many strings (translations not updated yet)
• Updated German translation
• Polished user interface with improvements here and there
• **IMPORTANT**: for version 2.0.0 and upwards, the licensing has been changed to the GNU GPL v3 (or later).

version 1.8.0: May 12 2019

• Added a confirmation dialog for file overwriting
• Fixed colors and icons for Sailfish 3 light ambiences

version 1.7.3: Jul 05 2018

• Fixed the SDCard location for users with an unusual sdcard symlink

version 1.7.2: Jun 11 2018

• Fixed SDCard location for Sailfish 2.2.0
• Fixed to start on Sailfish 1 phones

version 1.7.1: Feb 11 2018

• Added translations for French, Dutch and Greek
• Fixed icons for high density screens

version 1.7: Jun 27 2016

• Add translations for Italian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish
• Small UI improvements to match the Sailfish look

version 1.6: Mar 22 2015

• Add translations for Finnish, German and Simplified Chinese languages
• Fix occasional search page hangup

version 1.5: Sep 01 2014

• Multiple file selections
• View contents of tar files
• Display image size, exif and other metadata
• Displays broken symbolic links
• Move and copy symbolic links
• Display mime type information
• Display chr, blk, fifo and sock files correctly

version 1.4.2: Mar 20 2014

• Added full public domain license text
• Fixed path to sd card
• Fixed deleting symlinks to directories
• Added view contents to show rpm, apk and zip files

version 1.4.1: Jan 26 2014

• Added Settings page
• Added show hidden files
• Added show directories first
• Added rename files and folders
• Added create folders
• Added change permissions
• Added disk space indicators
• Fixed two deletes to work simultaneously

version 1.3: Dec 29 2013

• Added filename search
• Added audio playback
• Added image preview
• Added view contents to show text or binary dump

version 1.2: Dec 23 2013

• Added menu to open files with xdg-open
• Added context menu to cut, copy and paste (move/copy) files
• Cancel file operations
• Watches file system for changes to update the views

version 1.1: Dec 19 2013

• Android APK and Sailfish RPM packages can be installed
• Context menu to delete files and directories

version 1.0: Dec 17 2013

• Initial release