PyQt5 twin panel file manager playground, but functional

Art © Greg Rutkowski

Art © Greg Rutkowski

Art © Greg Rutkowski

• Twin panel
• Incremental/Background/Cancellable directory listing
• Optimized directory listing on win32 using ctypes
• Table and thumbnail views
• PIL supported file formats for thumbnails, EXIF rotation
• Automatically sizable/show/hide columns
• Resizable thumbnails
• Cached & background loaded thumbnails
• Select all/none/invert files
• Select files by fnmatch or regexp
• Copy/Cut files to/from system clipboard
• Copy/Move files to other panel
• Create directory
• Delete/rename file/directory
• Directory comparison internal or using external diff
• Filename substring keyboard navigation
• Navigation history
• Directory size calculation in background
• View file in external editor
• Current directory keyboard file search
• C include file parsing for automatic DLL hooking from Python
• Load Total Commander WCX packer plugins (total7zip, iso...)
• Load Total Commander WFX filesystem plugins (sftp dav...)
• Voidtools Everything integration, realtime search string typing and and display results in file panel
• Directory history navigation by popup menu
• Zip Python native compressed archive listing, view with external editor
• Localsend integration, discover devices, send selected files to selected devices
• Tabs
• Bookmarks
• Config file
• Sorting by column
• Directory background loading indicator on tab
• Panel file filtering/finding
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts in config file
• Windows share listing
• Open in external viewer, editor, command line
• Increase/decrease app font size

• Use multiprocessing instead of multithreading to avoid GIL UI blocking
• Copy/move error overwrite reporting
• Report copy/move progress
• Background copy, move
• Backround task management
• Full compressed archive / WCX packer support (create, read, update, delete)
• Drag & Drop
• Menus
• single http/ftp file download
• list links in html page

• Python 2.7
• PyQt5
• PIL

• Install Everything from https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
• Copy Voidtools Everything SDK from https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-SDK.zip into the _out directory

WCX and WFX Total Commander plugins can be copied to the _out directory

• Unpack Total7Zip from https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=28125 into _out\total7zip
• Unpack sftp from https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=19994 into _out\sftpplug

External viewer (configurable)

Install the app https://github.com/localsend/localsend on the target device (no need to install on the Twin/source device, the support in Twin is self-contained).

Send files to other machines or devices in the local network with automatic device discovery.

External diff viewer (configurable)