Fexplo (Folder EXPLOrer) is a lightweight cross-platform folder explorer to navigate through the directory tree of any OS (Windows, MAC, Linux). It is currently in development phase.
Since, it is in development, let's see the features that are done and are yet to be done.
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Initial window of Fexplo will show the content of the Home directory and also the same url will be visible in the URL bar
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Users can dive down a folder by double clicking on it
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Double clicking on a file will open it with the OS default program associated with that file type
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Navigation buttons like backward, forward and upward are now functional
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Users can also directly write / paste any folder path in the url-bar and press
ENTERon keyboard to get into that directory -
A refresh icon beside url bar to refresh current directory
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Use proper icons for different file types, like, image, txt, pdf, word, excel etc
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Click to select
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Multi select files / folders with
Ctrl+Click -
Select range of files / folders with
Shift+Click -
Clicking on the name text should let the user to rename that file/folder
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ENTERto open the selected file/folder - Single selection only [No accidental opening of large number of files/folders, leading to processor overload] -
Search functionality
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Drag and Drop to copy
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DELETEkeypress should delete the selected entity -
BACKSPACEkeypress should trigger the backwards navigation button -
Show information related to the selected file / folder in the footer
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Menu functionality - Select All
Ctrl+A -
Menu functionality - Cut
Ctrl+X, CopyCtrl+C, PasteCtrl+V -
Menu functionality - Create new folder
Ctrl+Shift+N -
Different views support, e.g. list view, details view, icons view etc
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Take cmd / terminal argument as folder-path-to-open