ACommander v3.0 — Full Blown App 🚀
I’m excited to announce ACommander v3.0 — a major release that transforms ACommander into a fully-featured, stable, and configurable file commander. This release includes dark mode, media conversion tools, a working command palette, configurable settings, progress indicators, and much more.
✨ New Features & Enhancements
UI & Appearance
- Dark Mode — Full dark mode support (#89)
- File icons — Files and folders now display type-appropriate icons (#24)
- Column sorting — Sort files by clicking on table column headers (#25)
- Disk space display — Available disk space is shown for both left and right panels (#46)
- Folder & selection size — View the total size of a folder or selected files (#97)
- Progress bar — Long-running actions now display a progress bar (#93)
File Operations
- File splitter & merger — Split files (ALT+F12) and merge them back (ALT+F11) (#61)
- Find text in files — Search for text content across files (ALT+F10) (#59)
- Attribute changing — Modify file attributes (ALT+F6) (#58)
- Checksum functionality — Compute and verify file checksums (#95)
- Run executables on ENTER — Pressing ENTER now launches executable files (#90)
Media Conversion
- Graphic file conversion — Convert between image formats (#96)
- Audio file conversion — Convert between audio formats (#99)
- Video file conversion — Convert between video formats (#100)
Configuration & Settings
- Preferences / Settings panel — Configurable app settings through a dedicated UI (#42)
- Bookmarks — Bookmark your favorite directories for quick access (#22)
- Persistent paths — Properties file now remembers the last used paths (#84)
- Portable apps mapping — Mapped list of portable applications for integration (#56)
Developer & Platform
- Cross-platform compatibility — Removed hardcoded Java version; the project now runs on any environment (#85)
- Unit testing — Added unit test coverage (#86)
- GitHub Actions CI pipeline — Automated build pipeline via GitHub Actions (#87)
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed bugs in the drive selection combobox (#91)
- Fixed a bug where users could scroll beyond the last item in popup windows (#92)
🚫 Not Planned (Skipped)
- Go to website in the Command palette (#43)
- Implement FileInfo / FileType Analyzer — ALT+F3 (#62)
Summary
This release closes 29 issues from the v3.0 milestone. ACommander is now a stable, multithreaded, fully configurable dual-pane file commander with a working command palette, installer, and a rich set of built-in tools.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Chaiavi/acommander/compare/v2.0…v3.0