About File Browser Applet

File Browser Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel. It lets you browse and open files in your computer directly from the panel, without having to open a file manager. It is not intended as replacement to proper file managers like nautilus. Sometimes you just want to open a file and don't want to have to open a file manager, browse to and open the file, then close the file manager. This Applet just saves you couple of clicks.

NOTE: As of version 0.6.7 the source repo has moved to http://gitorious.org/gnome-file-browser-applet.

Version 0.6.7

• Fixed bug #84 (No Icons shown under Ubuntu 10.10).
• Fixed bug #81 (Text files with executable bit are run when they shouldn't be.)
• Fixed bug #80 (Included locale.h in main.c)

Features

• Browse and open files in your computer from the panel.
• Respects GNOME mime type options and includes mime icon in menu.
• Middle clicking (or pressing F4) in a directory header will open a terminal in that directory.
• Middle-clicking (or pressing F4) on file will open with the configured editor, right-clicking will execute the default action (including running binary or .desktop files).
• Configuration options (directories and labels to show, select icon, show/hide icon, show hidden, select terminal and editor).
• Support for .desktop files.
• Displays message for empty directories or failure to open a directory.
• Optional keyboard activation (Super+h).
• Context menu with some useful actions such as open-with, new folder here, delete file/folder, create/extract archive, open/edit/run as root, etc.
• Fast keyboard navigation via mnemonics.
• Drag 'n Drop from applet to Nautilus or Desktop to MOVE files.
• Opened files added to "Recent Documents" list.
• Optionally displays a file's thumbnail if it exist.
• Option to show folder only (i.e. hide files).
• Useful tooltips indicating file size or folder contents count.

Screen Shots

Installing

Using

ToDo and Planned Features

Help is welcomed for addressing any of the following: * Translation. * Drag-n-drop configuration. * Documentation * A better icon. * Generating distribution packages.

Bugs

• Yes!
• Plus lots of memory leaks.

Report bugs using the bug tracker in this site.

Hacking

Contributions are welcome, but it might take a while for them to make it into a release as I (unfortunately) don't always have a lot of time to devote to this project (and other lame excuses). Send ideas/code/patches via the bug tracker.