Glint v0.6.0

Glint 0.6.0 brings quick search from anywhere, saved searches, previews of Office documents and fonts, deeper comparison of the two panes, and a window that snaps into halves and thirds. The instant search service is hardened too.

What's new

• Quick search from anywhere. Ctrl+Alt+F (Settings → Quick search: off, or another shortcut) opens a search box over every drive, answered by the index as you type. Before you type, it lists the folders you use most, so it doubles as a launcher. Enter opens, Alt+Enter shows it in Glint, and Esc or a click elsewhere puts it away. Glint can keep running in the tray and start with Windows.
• Saved searches. Save on a name search's results bar keeps the search, with the folder it searched, in a new Searches section of the sidebar. One click runs it again, and the command palette finds saved searches too.
• Previews of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, fonts and more, through the previewers Windows has, in the preview pane and in Quick Look. As in File Explorer, files downloaded from the internet aren't previewed.
• Compare the panes down through subfolders, and by contents. Subfolders compares what's inside folders too, Contents reads files of the same size on both sides instead of trusting sizes and dates, and Sync copies what's missing or newer inside subfolders as well, with Ctrl+Z to take it back.
• Snap layouts and small windows. Hovering the maximize button offers Windows 11's snap layouts, and Glint works in a window as small as 500 × 360, so it snaps into halves and thirds: the title bar, command bar and panes fold to fit.
• Every shortcut on one sheet: F1 or Ctrl+/.
• Drag what you'd expect to. Tabs drag along their strip or onto the other pane's tabs, the list's columns and the preview pane drag wider, and a path too long for the address bar folds its start into a … menu.
• Smoother. Menus and dialogs move as Windows 11's do (not if you turned animation effects off), the window never flashes white as it starts, and the first start after an update says so, with the release notes a click away.
• A pass over every screen. The tools sit in a Tools menu, deleting and moving offer Undo right in their notice, empty results say what was skipped with buttons to search further, and Glint follows Windows' high contrast themes, works with screen readers in the list and the palette, and applies Text size to every label.

Security

• The instant search service now answers on a pipe under \\.\pipe\ProtectedPrefix\Administrators\, where only administrators and SYSTEM can create one, so no other program can take its name while it's stopped. It answers 16 connections at a time, drops one that sends nothing for 10 seconds, caps a search's results, and refuses a damaged snapshot instead of following it.

Install

Glint 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 update themselves (Settings → About), or download Glint_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. With Scoop, scoop update glint. If instant search is on, Glint then offers to update it too, with one administrator prompt.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may show Windows protected your PC: choose More info → Run anyway.

Every feature, shortcut and benchmark: README.