v0.6.1
Three user reports, and each of them turned out to be about something the application was
deciding on the user's behalf. It left .bak files in folders you curate, with nothing
anywhere to turn that off. It knew the terminal as "the thing in the bottom strip", so
moving it to the side panel left its own menu commands opening an empty strip instead. And
its quick previews could show you a picture but never let you look closer at it.
Still unsigned and un-notarized. macOS blocks the first launch; README.md explains
how to allow it once.
Changed
- The editor no longer leaves
.bakfiles behind. Every save from the built-in text editor, the
hex editor and the compare window dropped a copy of the previous contents next to the file, and
there was nothing anywhere to turn it off — so the folders you work in filled up with files you
then deleted by hand. Saving now simply saves. If you want the copy, switch on Keep a backup copy
(.bak) of the previous contents when saving in Settings ▸ Edit/View; it applies to all three
windows at once, including the ones already open.
Added
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Zoom a picture — in the quick preview and in the viewer. The Info page of the side panel had
no zoom at all, so a photograph was however large the panel happened to be. A picture now carries four
controls in the corner of the preview — zoom out, zoom in, actual size, fit — with the level next to
them, and pinching or Cmd+scroll works there too. Quick View (Ctrl+Q), which takes over the panel you
are not using, gets exactly the same controls. The viewer gets the same four as menu items on
⌘+, ⌘−, ⌘0 and ⌘9 (the bare +, − and 0 keys still work, and F fits), with the level in the status
line. A big picture opens fitted; a small one is left at its own size instead of being blown up; and
Actual Size now really means one image pixel per screen point — it used to show a fitted image and
call it that, which made 1:1 unreachable. Fit stays fit: resize the window or drag the panel wider and
the picture follows. -
Show Terminal, in the Terminal menu. Folding the terminal away and bringing it back was
View ▸ Bottom Area — an item named after the strip it happens to sit in, in a different menu from
everything else the terminal can do, which is why it was not findable. The new item is the first one
in the Terminal menu, carries a checkmark for whether the terminal is on screen, and follows the
terminal if you have moved it to the side panel. Hiding it is not closing it: the shells keep
running and the tabs come back exactly as they were. -
The drive bar shows what each volume is. It drew three icons in all — a screen for the startup
disk, whatever a plugin supplied, and one floppy for everything else — so a network share, a USB
stick and a mounted disk image were identical in the one place they are listed side by side, which
is the place you go to choose between them. Every volume now carries its own icon, the same one
Finder shows, including the custom icon a branded drive ships with. A plugin drive keeps the icon
its plugin chose, and where there is nothing to ask — a cloud folder is a folder, and the system
has only the generic folder icon for it — a symbol for the kind stands in. Screen readers are told
the kind in words, since an icon is nothing to hear. -
Eject from the drive bar itself. 0.6.0 added ejecting and gave it one route — a command that
works out which volume you mean from where the cursor is standing. The place you actually look, the
button for the volume, did nothing at all on a right-click. It now offers Eject, and the button
carries a small ⏏ you can click directly. Volumes that cannot go are shown greyed out rather than
hidden, with the reason in the tooltip: an empty menu over the startup disk reads as broken, while
a disabled entry teaches the rule at a glance.
Fixed
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The terminal's commands find it in the side panel. Split the Terminal, New Terminal Tab,
Close the Terminal Tab, Go to the Panel's Folder and Insert the Selected File Names all opened
the strip across the bottom and looked for the terminal there. Move the terminal to the side panel —
which its own placement menu offers — and each of them opened that strip empty instead, while
appearing to do nothing at all. They now bring the terminal up wherever you have put it. -
Moving the terminal to the side panel switches to it. It arrived behind whichever tab the panel
was showing, usually Info, so the move looked as if it had been ignored or had lost the view. And
moving it back sometimes left an empty area behind, because the container it was leaving could take
the view out again just after the new one had taken it in — that was down to timing, which is why it
only happened sometimes. -
Moving a plugin view to the place it already sits no longer pins it there. The move was recorded
as a decision of yours even when it agreed with what the plugin asked for, so Reset to Default
appeared for views you had never moved, and a plugin update that relocated its own view would have
been quietly overruled. Where you actually moved something is still remembered, including while its
plugin is switched off. -
The terminal is open again after a restart if it was open when you quit. The state was written
down all along; the plugins load after the window has been arranged, so the area was opened, found
nothing in it yet, and shut itself as an empty frame. It now waits for the terminal to arrive — and
still stays shut if you closed it yourself. -
A drive contributed by a plugin now behaves like a drive. Picking TaskManager in the drive bar
switched the panel and nothing else: the button stayed selected on the volume you were on before,
the tab was still called “/” and the path bar claimed you were at the top of the startup disk. All
three read the folder path, and inside such a drive that path is the drive's own top, which belongs
to no disk you could point at. The drive itself now decides what they show, so the button stays
selected while you are in it, the tab carries the drive's name, and the path bar starts at the drive
instead of at a slash. The tab remembers it, too: switch to another tab and back, or quit and reopen
the app, and the tab returns to the drive rather than to the startup disk's root — and duplicating
such a tab duplicates the drive, while a new tab opens where the panel was before you entered it.
Reported as being impossible to follow, which it was: the bar said one thing and the listing another.