vjekoslav

File Explorer on Windows 7, and Windows 7 in general, provided a far better (and faster) user experience. It's been downhill since then.

Yes, there's a command called "Empty Trash Items", which you can assign to any hotkey or access via the command palette. You can also right click on the trash in the left sidebar.

Sorry, I based this on your comment "If you can accept a Rust dependency". I haven't actually looked into it yet, but I'll check it out, thanks for sharing.

However, I'd still prefer to go with my own solution, if possible, for tighter integration.

I'll check it out, thanks!

Hello! I can't promise anything on this topic yet, it's on my list, but it's fairly low priority right now. The program was written in C with no dependencies, so introducing a huge dependency like that isn't an option. But I appreciate the advice!

Speed, modern UI, rearangable panels & tabs, globaly accesable and remmapable all actions via cmd palette, GoTo window, batch rename...

And many more things to come. Since this was built from scratch, a lot of time and enginering effort was put into building a solid base. I'm in a phase where adding new stuff is fairly frictionless, so it's gonna get a lot better in the coming months.

That being said, it's only 3 years old, very young compared to other long time players. So, it's not comparable feature for feature, yet.

Way more maintainable than anything from MS that I'd have to deal with.

Yes, the separation between folders and files is a toggleable option. You can sort by date modified. Also, you should try it yourself, it's in free beta. :)

Hey, thanks! Yes, I know about Fman. I’ve tried pretty much all file explorers on Windows, a fair number on Linux, and fewer on macOS. I watched that video a couple of years ago, it had some nice insights. Thanks for sharing that.

I've been talking about File Pilot since the early days of the project, so I managed to build a following on Twitter and Discord, along with a decent number of email subscribers. I'm hoping that'll be enough to spread the word.

I'm sorry Fman didn't work out for you as a business. But truth be told, you need to deliver something exceptional to compete with established players. While I don't see other file explorer alternatives as direct competition, I do think File Pilot will bring a breath of fresh air. We'll see how it goes!

Yes, proper localization will be probably be included in first official V1 version.