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Skills: C++, Qt, KDE

Source code: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/utils/krusader/

About Krusader
Krusader is a simple, easy, powerful, twin-panel file manager (commander-style) for KDE and other *nix desktops (All POSIX, All BSD, Mac OS X with macports.org, and experimental port for Windows).

Please contact Frank Schoolmeesters for more information
http://www.krusader.org/developers.php

Thanks !

http://www.krusader.org/

So we have created a new download section called documentation-i10n-html at the Sourceforge mirrors.

Currently a Swedish and Ukrainian handbook are available for download.

Thanks to the KDE translation teams !

Krusader-SVN source code download:
[code:1:524c4b7de7]$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/createtarball

$ ./create_tarball.rb -n -a krusader -v svn`date +%Y%m%d`[/code:1:524c4b7de7]

Jump into the source code directory of Krusader, and compile and install Krusader:
[code:1:524c4b7de7]$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ -DQT_INCLUDES=/usr/share/qt4/include

$ sudo make install[/code:1:524c4b7de7]

Please note that Krusader-SVN is a development version and probably will contain some bugs,
but it allows you to use the brand new features (it contains bug fixes as well) !

Current highlights:

- Lister: a fast text/hex viewer for Krusader [2]
- Lock tabs, close inactive tabs, close duplicated tabs [3]
- File regex in quick search
- Service menu
- Better trash integration

A complete overview of all Changes can be monitored online with the Changelog [4] and SVNNEWS [5] files.

1. http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2286
2. http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2294
3. http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1975
4. http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/utils/krusader/ChangeLog?view=markup
5. http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/utils/krusader/SVNNEWS?revision=1003211&view=markup

For the impatient, here's the new checkout command:
[code:1:9113a6f0a9]svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/utils/krusader/[/code:1:9113a6f0a9]
Special thanks goes to Fathi Boudra for handling the migration process!

Please reinstall Krusader to be able to use Lister's most functionality.

How it works:
- checks whether a text file is bigger than 10 MB (configurable), and if
yes, then Lister is used instead of KDE's default viewer
- the old hex viewer was decomissioned, Krusader calls Lister to view
hex files as well
- lister never loads the whole file into memory, just a little part of
it, and uses caching for faster scrolling
- remote files are downloaded, but during the download, viewing the
downloaded part is possible
- if a file constantly changes, then it can also be viewed, lister will
always see its current state

Please test is, as Lister is huge (>= 2400 lines), so there can be many
bugs in it.

Lister also provides searching (hex, regexp, as well), printing,

Thanks,

Csaba

Currently Krusader sourcecode resides in the kdereview repository.
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdereview/krusader/

In the future Krusader will move to extragear.

http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/

Name: Krusader
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/krusader/
Category: Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins

For more information about the Sourceforge.net 2009 Community Choice Awards read the next URL.
http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/

Thanks!

[img:92325db1ae]http://sourceforge.net/images/cca/cca_nominate.png[/img:92325db1ae]

Even though this release contains quite a bunch of new features our main focus was to create a KDE4 version that is ready for everyday use. Overall the release is very usable but might contain bugs that haven't been present in prior versions. Please provide us bug reports, feedback and patches to make it as solid as the KDE3 version. Many thanks to everyone who supported us in the porting process!

Highlights:

• Archive dialog now remembers Compression level
  
• View properties for detailed/brief/interviews are merged into one
  
• Bugfixes
  
• I18n updates
  

• A first version of the long awaited queue manager
  
• Five different sorting methods
  
• Highlight quick search match
  
• Possibility to select a predefined mouse selection mode and change a detail
  
• Fine tuning in the Useractions
  
• Many many bugfixes
  

• Ported to KDE4 not using any of the Qt3 support libs
  
• Experimental support for the Windows platform
  
• Send emails with Thunderbird
  
• Attach multiple files to emails
  
• Submenus for categories in UserAction menu and context menu
  
• Select encoding in content search and krarc
  
• New synchronizer shortcuts
  
• Complete list of changes and enhancements is in the ChangeLog...
  

1 new feature was also added: the new brief view can now be sorted by name, extension, size, date

More information can be found on the krusader-i18n mailinglist
btw. the Bosnian and Japanese language aren't updated anymore for quite a while

This Krusader Windows version is not yet as powerful as the *nix version,
some KDE functionality that Krusader uses doesn't work yet on Windows and
some Krusader functions needs to be modified as well.
But all basic filemanagment functions does work!

This release is a beta release and can not be considered as stable.
Please send us feedback so that we can improve this Windows port of Krusader, Thanks!