File Manager: Future improvements

[iliaross]

To make new File Manager shinier we need to add:

1. Manage symbolic links - added on 19.20-beta5 (October 03, 2018) File Manager: Future improvements #629 (comment)
2. Extend search with ability to specify user and group, file type (file, directory, symlink) - added on 19.70-beta2 (December 24, 2020) 4ee8d65

To make it more powerful and comfortable to use, lets add some extra functionality:

1. Ability to diff two files File Manager: Enroll support for diffing #612

2. Movable and resizeable editor windows - added on 18.49 (May 18, 2017)

3. Image viewer with simple editor functionality; audio and video player - added on 19.32 (April 28, 2019)

4. Viewing archives content

5. Ability to download directory - added on 19.14 (April 26, 2018) https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/commit/9f114ace9d262299e02cb877da22e8e9cb588562

6. Selecting files/directories using wildcard

7. Calculate and verify checksum of files - added

8. Split and combine files

9. Exclude from search given folders - _added on 19.38 (July 20, 2019)

10. Multi-rename tool

11. Add multiple uploads - added

12. Add an option to automatically extract uploaded file(s) - added

13. Edit/reorder bookmarks (not just delete/add)

14. In File Manager, when extracting an archive, all files and folders gets root-root. In Java File Manager setting you can select the default user as "same as the directory". Or if you want to change you can do it in the upload dialog. And you also can select "Upload, Extract and Delete file" in one action. #52020 - added

15. Tree-view - added on 19.10-beta1 (March 18, 2018) https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/issues/1066

16. QuillJS - HTML, rich text editor - added on 19.10-beta4 (February 28, 2018) https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/issues/1031

17. Integrate Disk Usage module

18. Add text conversion for text editor - added

19. Add ability to reset column sorting https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/issues/1088 - _added on 19.38 (July 20, 2019)

20. Abort current call, when clicking the other link - added on 19.13-beta2 (April 17, 2018) https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/commit/3cdc3ec218384381c9107eed15db4781c21b229c

21. Add management for password protected archives Webmin file explorer rar files no extract option webmin#702 (comment) - added on 19.32 (April 28, 2019)

22. Manage file-size calculations on client-side for already calculated directories https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/issues/1136

23. Add ACLs control Issue with File ALCs module #1229 (comment)

24. Upload directories -- added

Anything else you miss/wish? Please comment below.

[iliaross]

Feature Movable and resizeable editor windows has been added to 18.49 release.

Added dropdown menu with yummy stuff for the editor.

1. Align Panels Vertically (when the menu is opened hold Alt to see the magic happening. Besides holding Shift will reverse panels arrangement)
2. Toggle Soft Wrap
3. Refresh Content
4. Help (moved away from the top)

[iliaross]

https://github.com/iliaross/authentic-theme/commit/f086f2ad9b8bfb2e567c2706d5ed7bd313888425

[iliaross]

Added support for creating symbolic links in File Manager.