Linelark Finder++
What shipped in 1.1.0.
Information
- Get Info (⌘I) opens a window in Finder’s sections: General, More Info, Name & Extension, Comments, Open With, Preview and Sharing & Permissions. Sections fold away and stay folded; Locked works; a folder’s size fills in while it is measured; several items get one window that sums them up.
- Selecting something shows a card under the sidebar with its kind, exact size, dates, permissions, owner and default app, or, for several, the counts, commonest kinds, total size and date range.
The terminal
- Copy and paste work. ⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘A reach the terminal instead of acting on the selected files, and right-click offers Copy, Paste and Select All.
- ⌃C and ⌃X copy while text is selected and otherwise reach the shell, so ⌃C still interrupts a command. ⌃V pastes; ⌘X copies.
- Reopening a hidden terminal after browsing elsewhere takes the shell to the folder on screen, when it is at its prompt.
- The terminal and agent panels now switch palette when macOS switches between light and dark.
The sidebar
- The tree follows the file views: it opens down to the folder on screen, at launch too, and folds back up what it opened for the previous one.
- Fixed: expanding folders stopped a level or two down once a second window or tab had been opened.
- Fixed: the sidebar widened along with the window. The file list now takes the extra room.
Also fixed
- The space bar opens Quick Look again.
- Renaming a file in light mode no longer shows white text on a white field.
- ⌃C copies files, alongside ⌃X and ⌃V.
Known limits in 1.1.0
- The Get Info window shows what was true when it opened; it does not update while the file changes, and the name, comment and default app cannot be edited from it — only Locked.
- In the terminal ⌃V always pastes, so a program that uses it itself (nano, vim in insert mode) no longer receives it.
- Drives and servers were tried against disk images and a local SMB share, not yet against a NAS, another computer or a physical external drive.
- The app has not been checked with VoiceOver or Full Keyboard Access, and has not been run by hand on an Intel Mac or on macOS 14 itself; the automated tests do pass on macOS 14 and 15.
- Search results, Recents, Shared and the tags are queries, not folders: capped, read-only, and only as good as the Spotlight index behind them.
- It does not replace Finder and does not integrate with the system as a Finder substitute.