Rebranding of Xplorer

[kimlimjustin]

Motivation

#171

Changes

• Remove all dependencies related to Electron
• Add Tauri dependencies
• Reimplement all code to use Rust as the backend for file operation
• Allow previewing almost all programming languages with syntax highlighting
• Improve file type determination performance (x3 faster) (33ee1ac)
• Improve open directory performance
• Improve memory usage (won't consume as much as the previous release)
• Decrease the size of the installer
  • Windows Installer from 67.2 MB to 5.75 MB (decrease up to 91.44 percent)
  • Deb Installer from 68.8 MB to 7.57 MB (decrease up to 90 percent)
  • Dmg Installer from 87.6 MB to 5 MB (decrease up to 94.29 percent)
• Fix sidebar favorites not sync with home page favorites bug
• Add ability to continue the previous session on startup
• Add ability to change Fonts, Window Transparency, Frame style, and many more
• Improve Xplorer layout
• Introduce a new icon
• Improve locales
• Update docs
• Improve lazy load thumbnail algorithm
• Add more tests
• Improve calculate folder's size speed (even faster than windows' default file explorer)
• Remove monorepo setup and temporarily remove theme customization support as it gives security concerns (resolve Current Implementation of Theme Plugin can Cause Critical Security Concern #157) (will be added back in the future)
• Add default sorting algorithm for specific folders
• Improve update theme performance
• Update icons and file type library
• Add go to parent directory navigation.

and so on...

Performance

Tested on i7-9700 32GB

	Before	After
First startup	∼ 1.52 s	∼ 1.28 s
Speed on opening material icon folder	∼0.5 s	~1.5s
Memory used on opening material icon folder	284 MB	220 MB
RAM usage stability	Not Stable	More Stable

Related

• Resolve Current Implementation of Theme Plugin can Cause Critical Security Concern #157
• Might fix (need confirmation):
  • MacOS: Xplorer cannot be opened because of a problem. #153
  • Endless loop when choosing a pendrive on Ubuntu #152
  • Incorrect folder name of mappet drive #77
  • Moving window across screen is very laggy #66

Some issues introduced:

(will be fixed in the future release)

• High amount of memory needed to listen to drive changes
• Current approach to extract exe icon is by calling ps1 files underneath the hood
• xplorer://Trash is not supported on macOS

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[stanleyowen]

Great work! Love it really much. However I notice that the maximize button doesn't work appropriately, can you confirm it?

[im-coder-lg]

Been a long time... Does the rebrand still have C++ modules?

[kimlimjustin]

Been a long time... Does the rebrand still have C++ modules?

Just wanna tag you for the gitpod things haha. The rebrand does not longer contain c++ modules, instead, there're Rust files. Could you please help me handle this?

This is the setup for Linux: https://tauri.studio/en/docs/getting-started/setup-linux

Thanks

[im-coder-lg]

Will do soon 👍🏻

[stanleyowen]

LGTM

[ivanglushko]

Curios how Tauri is in production thanks for a great example guys 🔥