Loaf v0.1.0

🍞 Loaf v0.1.0 — Initial Release

A beautiful and fast Rust-based Material 3 Expressive file manager for Linux.

✨ Highlights

• Material 3 Expressive UI: Fluid spring motion, directional transitions, and smooth hover overlays.
• Dynamic Theming: 8 curated color palettes plus automatic dynamic palette generation from your desktop wallpaper.
• Progressive File Loading: Instant folder opening (<2ms) with smooth 60fps streaming for dense folders.
• Interactive Scrolling: Native wheel and trackpad momentum scrolling with interactive scrollbars on Grid and List views.
• Cascading Archive Creation: Non-modal archive compression for .zip, password-protected encrypted .zip, .tar.gz, .7z, and advanced formats (.tar.xz, .tar.zst, .tar.bz2, .cpio).
• Comprehensive Undo / Redo: Multi-step operation history (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y) for renames, creations, moves, and deletions.
• Storage & Drive Dashboard: "This PC" overview with internal drive pool stats, drive health/space indicators, mount/unmount/rename actions, and optional customizable layout.
• Native Trash Integration: Standard freedesktop directory listing of trashed items with one-click restore and toolbar empty action.
• Multiple View Modes: Responsive Grid View and Detailed List View with dynamic column adaptation.
• Navigation Controls: Mouse side buttons (Back / Forward), full keyboard navigation, and rich drag-and-drop.

📦 Installation

Check the README.md for complete installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Arch Linux (.pkg.tar.zst), Nix Flake (nix run .#), or the universal portable tarball.