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Release notes 1.9.4

By Erik Jälevik on 17 December 2024

Fixes a few bugs around saving of shortcuts, and handling of non-English characters when searching. Improvements include new shortcuts for toggling commonly used settings, drag-and-drop of URLs and improved type-to-jump.

Features

Links and URLs can now be dragged from a browser and dropped as files in Fileside.

Improvements

Shortcuts added for quickly toggling a couple of settings without opening the Settings dialog:
- Toggle hidden files: Shift-Ctrl-. on Windows and Shift-Cmd-. on Mac
- Toggle folders before files: Shift-Ctrl-G on Windows and Shift-Cmd-G on Mac
Make type-to-jump match strings anywhere in a filename, not just at the beginning.
Navigate up by double-clicking empty space in a pane.
After navigating up, set selection in parent folder to the folder we came from.
Improve scrollbar visibility.

Bug fixes

Fixed saving of deleted keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed keyboard shortcut conflict checker to only look at shortcuts for the current platform.
Fixed search, filter and type-to-jump sometimes not finding existing matches containing non-ASCII characters.
Fixed generation of layout initials for non-ASCII characters.

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