Chapter 2. Features

• Orthodox File Manager (OFM) features

  • Two powerful and easy to use OFM panels.

  • Command Line and optional Terminal emulator below.

  • Strong keyboard orientation and the ability to perform all functions without the mouse.

  • Context-dependent invocation of scripts and programs e.g. mouse click/Enter (execute or open with the associated application), F3 (view) and F4 (edit).

  • User Menu, create your own customized menu.

  • History e.g. Folder History, Popular URLs, etc.

  • Virtual file systems (VFS) e.g. for Remote Connections, archives, search results, synchronizer.

  • Powerful internal viewer and editor via kparts supporting almost every file format.

  • Advanced Search module: searching in archives and search content on remote file systems.

  • Several Panel view modes via the Sidebar.

• Krusader tools

  • Remote Connections: FTP/SAMBA with SFTP/SCP support via KIO Slaves

  • Locate GUI frontend

  • Synchronize Folders

  • Mount-Manager

  • Disk Usage

  • Root mode

• Krusader features

  • Archive Handling: browsing, unpack, pack, testing. Supported archives: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip.

  • Checksum Creation and Verification mechanism that supports md5, sha1, sha256, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, tiger, whirlpool, cfv, and crc.

  • Calculate occupied space of files and folders, archives and remote filesystems.

  • Directory comparison and filtering.

  • Compare files by content via external diff programs like Kompare, KDiff3 or xxdiff.

  • Rename files and folders via KRename

  • Completely supports drag'n'drop: drag from Konqueror straight into a .tar.gz file, from Krusader's panel into the trash bin, the desktop or into Konqueror

  • Preserve date for local targets at copy/move operations.

  • F9 opens a Terminal Window in the current folder.

  • Easy editing of file permissions and ownership and Numeric Permissions.

  • Selection filters used in e.g. Synchronizer and KruSearcher.

  • Jump-Back

  • MIME type-aware.

  • Tabbed panels and Tabbed Editor/Viewer.

  • Quick search, select and filter

  • File splitter

  • Mouse Gestures

  • Quick Navigation in the Location Toolbar.

  • WhatsThis Help function in favour of tooltips where reasonable.

  • Sync-browsing

• Customize Krusader to your own needs

  • Konfigurator Krusader's configuration center.

  • Main Toolbar, Actions Toolbar for user actions and bookmarks.

  • Key-bindings

  • Colors

  • Panel profiles

  • Bookmark-Manager

  • Selection Modes

  • Many more features can be configured the way you like.

• Krusader Extensions

  • UserActions

  • Color Profiles

  • Key-binding Profiles

  Download and upload your favourite Krusader extensions at store.kde.org.

New features in the Krusader-1.80.0 “Final 3rd Stone” release

• Archive improvements

  • Password support for: arj, ace, rar and zip. Passwords can be stored in Kwallet

  • 7-zip support, by external applications 7z and 7za.

  • Auto-detection support, allowing you to open “hidden archives” (e.g. OpenOffice® documents).

  • Packing/unpacking is now in the background.

• Brief View

• Many improvements of the UserActions system.

• Countless usability enhancements, especially in Konfigurator and the heavily reordered menubar.

• Media button

• Copy/Move: preserve all attributes (time, owner, group).

• Dim the colors of the inactive panel.

• Renaming a filename without extension, single instance mode, start to system tray, check this out in Konfigurator

• Configurable Atomic extensions, so that extensions like .tar.gz are shown as one part in the Ext Column.

• Context menu for bookmarks and enable/disable special bookmarks.

• Restyled MenuBar

• Terminal emulator enhancements bringing new functions, new usages and new look.

• Synchronizer enhancements and parallel threads for slow FTP servers.

• Single instance mode, start to system tray

• Context menu for permanent bookmarks.

• Full support for ACL permissions, like properties, preserve attributes, synchronizer and other.

• Searcher-results, Locate-results, Synchronizer-results: support for dragging items and copy to clipboard (Ctrl+C).

• Many bug fixes.

New features in the Krusader-1.90.0 “Power Stone” release

• Last release for KDE 3.x with a big collection of Useractions.

New features in the Krusader-2.0.0 “Mars Pathfinder” release

• The first release for the KDE 4.x series

• Krusader works on Windows®! (But not so useful and powerful yet as under Linux®)

• Queue manager!

• Five methods in the panel!

New features in the Krusader-2.1.0-beta1 “Rusty Clutch” release

• Fast text/hex viewer for huge filesizes.

• Locked tabs.

• Queued packing / unpacking.

• Better trash integration.

• The quick search, select and filter bar supports regular expressions for matching files.

New features in the Krusader-2.5.0 “Clear Skies” release

• Ported to KDE Frameworks™ 5.

• The new Quickfilter bar with three different modes to operate: select, search and filter.

• Reworked Queue Manager (JobMan) and the new Job Toolbar.

New features in the Krusader-2.7.0 “Peace of Mind” release

• Quick Search in Bookmark menu.

• Pinned tabs.

• Tooltip with file information when you hover a file name.

• Extended options for Tree Panel at the Side Bar.

New features in the Krusader-2.8.0 “A New Day” release

• Duplicating tabs with double click.

• Closing tabs with Ctrl+left mouse button or Alt+left mouse button (configurable).

• Undoing the closed tabs while the app is running.

• Dynamically sized tabs.

• Configuration options for new tab position, tab button visibility and New Tab Button behavior.

• History and suggestions in New Folder dialog.

• Cycling through full name, file name and extension selections with Rename shortcut (F2 by default).

• Shift+Del removes undesired entries from the history in various dialogs.

• Improved sync between the panel and embedded terminal.

• Improved color configuration.