[ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Hi everyone

This is the announce of the proper version of my first Qt app
It's another File Manager with some nice features:

- Multilanguage support (english/spanish for now)
- Full filesystem navigation
- Root access for copy/paste/cut/delete files
- Share via bluetooth and e-mail
- Bookmars
- Personalized clipboard
- Multiple files selection
- Edit files with Leafpad / PyGTKEditor (with root access too)
- Autorotation
- Create folders and empty documents
- Order by date/size/name
- Thumbnails for images
- Open files using mime
- Compress using tar, tar.gz and tar.bz


Changelog:
Shortcuts:
Ctrl+A = select all
Ctrl+D = unselect all
Ctrl+F = select all folders
Ctrl+G = select all files
Ctrl+C = add selected files/folders to clipboard
Ctrl+V = paste selected files/folders from clipboard
Ctrl+H = show/hide hidden files and folders
Ctrl+R = clear thumbnails cache and reload folder

Screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/6JdX1.png

http://i.imgur.com/oH7Ej.jpg

http://imgur.com/GAX5o.png

http://i.imgur.com/yGeJK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ylqOd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y6PAF.jpg http://imgur.com/Fv0aB.png


NOTES:
- For edit files you need to install Leafpad or PyGTKEditor.
If there's another great text editor just tell and I'll add to the list.
- For tar.bz2 compression maybe you need bzip2 (not sure cause I have already installed it).

Download:
Version 0.7.4 from extras-devel
Version 0.7.3 from extras-testing
Version 0.7.2 from extras



PD: Sorry for my bad english, it sucks...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Your English is great mate, don't worry about it. Thanks for the app, I'll download it and get testing and feedback soon enough. If you could add text editor support for Nano I would appreciate it.

Thanks again

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

How is it possible to select multiple files at once?
Thanks for your great file manager!

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@Switch_:
Nano is for x-term, right? I'll try...

@DaSilva:
I think I should add a shortcut for this, like CTRL+A

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Wonderful application, just two ideas:
- Could you add support for the built-in Notes application?
- Why do you use a different icon theme (Humanity) as default? The application seems completely non integrated with the rest of the system. It's a good feature to be able to change the icon theme, but as a default it should use the same icons than the other applications.

Thanks.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Thanks for a great app!

It would be very nice if you could enable text editor support for vim and possibly emacs (or even better, if the user could customize the editor command himself, so that I could e.g. choose between "emacs" and "emacs -nw").

best regards

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A few comments:

1. Add builtin Notes app to the list of editors
2. Add NANO (aka PICO) to the list of editors
3. Move up-folder button to the right of the current path display, so that one could click it with his thumb while holding the device vertically in his right hand.

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I suggestion I mentioned in the other thread (I believe) is to the option to have additional info . In vertical mode to the right of and in portrait mode under the file name. This info could either be the date or the size.

In addition how about when typing having it "quick-filter" like the regular file manager. So you could type and it will only show the files that match what you type. Similar also to fapman when typing in the package list.

Last, why not steal a page from the firefox design?
* Have the top bar (up | home | location) be part of the scroll area of the file list, so when you scroll down, to goes up as well (like firefox's location bar) meaning you will be able to see more files on screen.
* Have the buttons on the right be 'invisible' unless you drag/scroll the windows to the left to show them. This can be achieved by having the button in the same scroll area as the file list and making the list the size of the screen so the buttons will be offscreen unless scroll-en to.

Great app! Thanks!

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Good application... Thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

for me the multi select is acting buggy, it seems to be only with images but i could be wrong, but with multi select activated, on entering a folder i find 10 or so files selected, i can replroduce it by just moving out of the folder and back in again, not always the same files or same amount of files.
compression seems to be working ok but i havent tested large files, will zip and rar come later?
anyway great update dude

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

try nano
That is the one i use and i love it :D

Edit:
http://maemo.org/development/tools/doc/diablo/nano/

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I can also confirm that issue. When multiselect is active and i open a folder some files inside that folder are already selected. The expected behavior would be, in my opinion, that after opening a folder no file inside that folder should be selected.

Let me also suggest that the context menu should include the cut and paste options. Paste should be lit whenever the contents of the clipboard are not empty.
Then when holding on a folder and selecting paste the contents of the clipboard should be pasted to that folder.
According to the cut or copy previous selection so the contents of the clipboard should be cleared.
This should make file copy and moving faster and easier.

Anyway great work CepiPerez. Filebox is getting better. :)

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Thank you very much, CepiPerez!

The previous button also has a nice functionality, it returns to the last scrolled position, in stead of the top of the folder, which the default file manager does. Saves a lot of re-scrolling :D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Have noticed FileBox is showing the 8GB SD card I have on my n900

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Thank you very much, CepiPerez! I have some idea. IMHO better position for BACK button would be above buttons on the right side, because in portrait mode you have to strech your finger over whole device. Next bonus is more space for path bar. Maybe you could move settings button to apllication menu and home button to other buttons and now we have big path bar :) I am sorry only my idea. Do you plan add extracting compressed archives? One more thank you for your best file manager for mobile device.

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Hi!
I wanna share you my impressions.
Good looking UI, nice features but I don't like multiselection reaction and the double click to enter to a folder or to open a file. You should try to keep the single click for all this and to add an option for multiselect by checking in a right box witch file to be sellected.
Also the keyboard shortcuts for copy,cut,paste, sellect all ... are not working!
I would love to see support for rar and zip archives and also an option to decompres the archived files(tar, zip, rar). That's will be realy needed.
In my oppinion if these issues will be fixed this FILEBOX (love the name) will be a powerful filemanager.
One more thing, the multiselection is buggy. When I enter to a folder, sometimes somefiles inside that folder are already sellected! I think if you keep the built-in file manager gesture, as I described, your application will be more friendly!
Hope you will keep in mind my oppinions!
Thank you!

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Currently I'm working on multiselection.
I've changed the buggy default for checkboxes
But I need to implement this to all functions
I already implement some shortcuts right now:
CTRL+A = select all
CTRL+D = deselect all
CTRL+F = select all folders
SHIFT+F = select all files
I will implement the rest later and see how to change the buttons interface for a better navigation in portrait mode.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Sorry i missed a word in my former comment
i mean I am not seeing my 8GB SD card in FileBox

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

What you see in /media/mmc1? Nothing?

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Yes is OK now . See my files after a reboot.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

awesome news!

any chance for zi and rar archiver?

what about the decompress function for all the compressed file tile types thet filebos is handeling?

thanks?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

It's great how it has improved this software.
I found a small bug. When you try to delete a bookmark you do not, get the menu but does not perform the action.

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@WhiteWolf:
I've changed the bookmarks file for prevent loss on updates. Forget to chage it in delete function. I'll do it now. Thanks!

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Would you be nice to answer my questions?
Thanks!

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The things are becoming better and better .
Please consider in your next release the native application NOTES as text editor. Have seen this request earlier.

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Added nano support
I tried but I can't pass arguments to native notes application
Tried in x-term and using dbus, but no luck
If someone knows please tell me

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Thanks for you

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

CTRL+A -> OK
CTRL+D -> Not working
CTRL+F -> Not working
SHIFT+F -> Not working

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

awesome app! no more having to remember folder paths or lookup Linux commands I keep forgetting ;)

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And don't forget the important ctrl+h ;)

I also noticed a bug in bookmarks.. i accidentally made two from the same place and when i wanted to remove one. Both disappeared.

I support switching sides of the home and back button.

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The native File Manager supports opening files in Notes, so I guess it should be possible, but I don't know how. Can you sniff the dbus maybe?

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What about people who hold the phone in their left hand? Maybe this should be an option, or the button should be placed easily accessible with either hand.

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Well, there is only one button, and two sides, and most people hold their phones in their right hands. Indeed, the remaining users may need to grow longer thumbs on their left hands.

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Updates:
Version 0.4-3
- Added zip compression
- Added autocomple support in addess bar
- Swith address bar between text/button

Version 0.4-2
- Change multiselection ui
- Added nano editor support
- Added hicolor icons
- Added shortcuts

Promoted to extras-testing, please vote

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Thanks a lot. Would you consider adding support for the text editor Vim?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

CepiPerez I have made this pretty much my default file browser. Nice interface, nice app icon, nice options. Great work!

2d

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*Bug report

Longpressing in an empty folder crashes the application.

I wanted to copy some images to a newly created folder (made in FileBox), and longpressed for 'paste', then it just closed.

EDIT: I just copied them with the side button, that copy dialog is definately eye-candy :D

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I have also noticed that bug. Even if the folder isn't empty longpressing an empty line closes / crashes filebox

Can you get a paste option in the context menu? How do you do it?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

Yet an another file manager, but the best I've seen so far! Thanks for this great app.

A small suggestion: it would be extremely-highly-amazingly-turbo-awsome if it supported letters with accents. It would be very useful for french people namely. This is my case and I can't open folders with accents in their names (they are not displayed and manually filling the adressbar does not solve the problem).

Yes, it's a localization job, may be it requires a lot of work, I don't know.

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love the changes (as usual) on multitap, is it possible to put a tick in a selection box only by touching the actual selection box, leaving everything else one tap only?