Sigma File Manager v1.2.0

[aleksey-hoffman]

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: feat: option to filter hidden dir items #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 [Problem report] Functionality of forward and back buttons on mouſe #35 | 1ec99bf
• Shortcuts: new local shortcut F5: reloadDirectory | Fixes [Feature Request] refresh button #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 [Problem report] Duplicate Process #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 UI scaling / zoom does not save #103 | 01a90a0
• UX: Fixed: "home banner visibility" setting not being saved to storage | Fixes Problem with Banner #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

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This discussion was created from the release Sigma File Manager v1.2.0.

[Ansh4011]

Thanks :))

[aleksey-hoffman]

You are welcome :)
Have you found any problems with it yet?

[Ansh4011]

You are welcome :)
Have you found any problems with it yet?

Hey! I am sorry, I went to sleep at that time!
Anyways, I used it for sometime, and apparently as much as I have used, it is working Flawlessly! It's really working up to the mark! And I am too Happy to use it! (User Satisfaction 100%)

[AdamJel]

Hi, I am a bit confused and discouraged from using the app by the release notes warning.

• The app has semantic version > 1.0. At such a version, it should not be "in early development stage" and it should not be needed to "use with caution!".
• The backup suggestion and recomendation not to use it with important files tells me, that it could potentially delete files. Which is dreathful even for app < 1.0.

So, from which version / it would be safe to use the app not only in ephemeral boxes?

[Ansh4011]

Woah! Excited! 😃Thanks for this great piece of software! @aleksey-hoffman

[aleksey-hoffman]

The release was published guys

[Ansh4011]

YAY........ The New Update!
The window transparency effect looks so pretty 😍.... This feature makes it really special and unique. Didn't face any issues yet either.
Great Job Amigo! I like the update!

[aleksey-hoffman]

@Ansh4011 thanks :) I will showcase the window transparency effect on my Twitter and Reddit tomorrow.

The v1.4 update is coming out next week on Saturday

[Ansh4011]

@Ansh4011 thanks :) I will showcase the window transparency effect on my Twitter and Reddit tomorrow.

The v1.4 update is coming out next week on Saturday

Woah! Let me get my reminders on haha! Very excited for v1.4. Thanks :)