Fexplo (Folder EXPLOrer) is a lightweight cross-platform folder explorer to navigate through the directory tree of any OS (Windows, MAC, Linux). It is currently in development phase.
Since, it is in development, let's see the features that are done and are yet to be done.
Initial window of Fexplo will show the content of the Home directory and also the same url will be visible in the URL bar
Users can dive down a folder by double clicking on it
Double clicking on a file will open it with the OS default program associated with that file type
Navigation buttons like backward, forward and upward are now functional
Users can also directly write / paste any folder path in the url-bar and press
ENTERon keyboard to get into that directoryA refresh icon beside url bar to refresh current directory
Use proper icons for different file types, like, image, txt, pdf, word, excel etc
Click to select
Multi select files / folders with
Ctrl+ClickSelect range of files / folders with
Shift+ClickClicking on the name text should let the user to rename that file/folder
ENTERto open the selected file/folder - Single selection only [No accidental opening of large number of files/folders, leading to processor overload]Search functionality
Drag and Drop to copy
DELETEkeypress should delete the selected entityBACKSPACEkeypress should trigger the backwards navigation buttonShow information related to the selected file / folder in the footer
Menu functionality - Select All
Ctrl+AMenu functionality - Cut
Ctrl+X, CopyCtrl+C, PasteCtrl+VMenu functionality - Create new folder
Ctrl+Shift+NDifferent views support, e.g. list view, details view, icons view etc
Take cmd / terminal argument as folder-path-to-open
