gc4515 / newbreeze

NewBreeze File Manager based on Qt

NewBreeze

A fast and light-weight file manager based on Qt

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Qt5 migration complete. Qt5 is now the preferred Qt version.

Note: NewBreeze 3.0 is in the oven. Expect several changes..!!

Built on top of the Powerful Qt GUI Toolkit, this file manager is sleek, stylish and fast. Some of its features are

• Fast startup and browsing
• Folder, text, html, image, odt, and pdf quick preview
• File Association support
• Provides Categorized List, Icon and Details View
• Sleek side panel showing drives and bookmarks
• Full drag and drop support
• Applications, Catalog View and SuperStart
• Auto update devices list
• Custom Folder Icons and Thumbnail Preview
• Complete mime-icon support
• BreadCrumbs Navigation Bar
• Custom Actions and Inline terminal
• SingleApplication Mode for resource sharing
• Plugin System Support

Linux Source Available

Windows source is no longer being maintained

Please READ the ReleaseNotes for information on the new features

Notes for compiling - linux:

• Download the sources
  • Git: git clone https://github.com/marcusbritanicus/NewBreeze NewBreeze-master
  • Tar: wget https://github.com/marcusbritanicus/NewBreeze/archive/master.tar.gz && tar -xf master.tar.gz
• Enter NewBreeze-master
• Open the terminal and type: qmake && make
• To install, as root type: make install

Dependencies:

• Qt4/Qt5 (libqt4-dev, libqt4-dev-bin, qtbase5-dev, qtbase5-dev-tools)
  • QtWebKit in case of Qt4 and upto Qt 5.4 (libqtwebkit-dev, libqt5webkit5-dev, qtwebkit5-dev)
  • QtWebEngine Qt 5.5 onwards (qtwebengine5-dev)
  • QScintilla (libqt5scintilla2-dev, libqscintilla2-qt5-dev)
• zlib (zlib1g-dev)
• liblzma (liblzma-dev)
• libbzip2 (libbz2-dev)
• libarchive (libarchive-dev)
• xdg-utils
• libpoppler-qt4/qt5 (libpoppler-qt4-dev, libpoppler-qt5-dev)
• libdjvulibre-dev (libdjvulibre-dev)

Known Bugs

• Reloading causes custom folder icons not to be rendered in some cases

Upcoming

• Any other feature you request for... :)