Linelark Finder++
What shipped in 0.3.0.
The path bar became a control
- Click the trail at the foot of the window anywhere the crumbs are not, or press ⌘L, and it becomes a field holding the current path. Names complete against the disk on every keystroke, Return goes there, Escape puts the crumbs back. ⇧⌘G still opens the Go to Folder prompt.
- The work was in deciding which slice of the typed text a completion replaces. A text field’s editor has its own idea of where the “word” under the caret begins, and it does not agree with a path — without teaching it that a component starts after a separator, the list reads as fragments of path rather than as names.
- Names complete without a trailing separator, because typing the separator is how you say you want to go deeper, and completing it for you would mean deleting it again first.
- Completions and typed paths can see what is on the system volume too.
The sidebar got places to go
- Recents and Shared, built on the same Spotlight queries Finder’s own rows use, so the app keeps no history of its own and records nothing when you open a file.
- A Trash row, a row per standard tag colour, and iCloud Drive when the Mac is signed in — listed the way Finder composes them.
- The AirDrop row is drawn with Finder’s own glyph rather than a broadcast symbol.
The views were rebuilt to Finder’s proportions
- The list, the icon grid and the gallery were rebuilt to match Finder’s own measurements, and the toolbar and sidebar gained their containers. Icon and Gallery draw Quick Look previews of the files themselves rather than the generic type icon.
The app calls itself by its public name
- The bundle, the DMG volume and the About box had always said Linelark Finder++ while the strings compiled into the app said “Finder++”, so the menu bar and the Quit item disagreed with everything else on screen. The window’s fallback title and the two failure messages that name the app went the same way.
Known limits in 0.3.0
- No undo, for anything. A move, a rename, a new folder and a Move to Trash are all final in this build. Undo arrived in 0.5.0.
- No drag and drop between folders. Moving files is Control-X then Control-V.
- Hidden files cannot be shown, and list columns cannot be sorted.
- The folder does not refresh itself. A change made in another app or in the terminal panel appears on ⌘R and not before.
- The app does not reopen where you left off; every launch starts fresh.
- Recents, Shared and the tags are Spotlight queries rather than folders, and depend on the index being on.
- The Trash generally opens in Finder, because
~/.Trashis behind Full Disk Access.