KMiller 5.25.4

KMiller 5.25.4 Release Notes

Date: 2026-04-30

Highlights

• Daily-driver parity pass focused on reducing reasons to fall back to Dolphin or Thunar.
• Settings truthfulness fixes for Miller column width and symlink navigation.
• File operation feedback and refresh improvements.
• Open With backend extraction and GIO fallback for mixed Hyprland/KDE/GNOME MIME environments.
• Archive and file-operation QA expansion.
• New repeatable headless and guided manual QA harnesses for release checks.

Fixed And Improved

• Pane navigation history now routes through PaneNavigationState.
• Miller column width setting now applies to current and future Miller columns.
• Follow symbolic links now affects directory symlink navigation in Pane and Miller views.
• Unimplemented file-extension setting is hidden until display behavior is real.
• Paste/move refreshes destination and source parent folders.
• Duplicate uses centralized FileOpsService::copyAs().
• Duplicate success reports through the status bar instead of interrupting with a modal.
• Copy, move, trash, permanent delete, and new-folder operations report status-bar success/error feedback.
• Open With dialog uses shared modal presentation and Finder-style custom command input.
• Open With discovery and launching now live in OpenWithService.
• GIO MIME associations are used as a fallback when KDE's service cache is stale.
• Added Show in Parent Folder for single local selections.
• Search field now communicates recursive search and shows an active state while searching.
• Inline rename cleanup no longer blanket-disconnects all delegate closeEditor handlers.

QA And Release Checks

• Added --path <folder> for launching KMiller against a disposable fixture path.
• Added --qa-fixture <folder> for noninteractive file-operation checks.
• Added --qa-ui-logic <folder> for initial-path and symlink-follow checks.
• Added --qa-open-with <file> for noninteractive Open With app discovery checks.
• Added --qa-archive <folder> for noninteractive archive create/extract/conflict checks.
• Added tools/qa_headless.sh to run fixture operations, UI logic checks, and Xvfb GUI smoke.
• Added tools/kmiller_manual_qa_harness.py and tools/run_manual_qa_harness.sh for guided manual release QA.

Verification

• cmake --build build --parallel 4
• ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
• tools/qa_headless.sh build/kmiller
• Guided manual QA report: /home/diamondeyesfox/Downloads/Kmiller Testing Folder/KMiller QA Report 20260430-162740.md

KMiller 5.25.2

KMiller 5.25.2

Highlights:

• Restored stable Quick Look behavior after media UI regressions.
• Preserved expected Space-to-close Quick Look behavior.
• Improved Quick Look window stacking/activation reliability.
• Updated audio Quick Look layout to artwork-left and metadata-right.
• Fixed audio metadata card styling that could clip/crop text.
• Added YouTube-style media shortcuts in Quick Look:
  • J: rewind 10s
  • K: play/pause
  • L: forward 10s
• Bumped app version metadata to 5.25.2.

Included commits:

• eafeaed Restore stable Quick Look behavior and add J/K/L media keys
• b5cbd94 Bump version to 5.25.2

KMiller 5.25.1

KMiller 5.25.1 Release Notes

Date: 2026-02-14

Highlights

• Safe release-track integration onto origin/main (release/v5.25.1).
• Quick Look now previews audio and video files with playback controls.
• Finder-style UX polish for tabs, context menus, and selection behavior.

Fixed

• Added tab-strip empty-space right-click context menu with New Tab.
• Fixed horizontal scrollbar theming consistency (including views that previously showed white bottom bars).
• Right-click now selects unselected items first (Miller and classic views), matching Finder expectations.
• Empty-space New Folder now creates in the clicked column/folder target in Miller view.
• File chooser filters are now enforced in open mode (glob and MIME-aware matching).
• Main window runtime settings (toolbar/hidden/preview/view/zoom) now persist reliably.
• Miller selection status accounting now updates selected count/size.

Quick Look

• Added media preview support for common audio/video formats.
• Added media playback controls (play/pause + seek) in Quick Look.
• Improved unsupported-file fallback with file/type messaging.

Internal

• Added FileOpsService abstraction and routed more open/copy/move/trash/delete operations through it.
• Added lightweight linkage smoke checks (ctest + tools/smoke_release.sh).
• Version metadata updated to 5.25.1.

Audit

Updated parity roadmap:

• docs/FINDER_PARITY_AUDIT.md

KMiller v5.22

Changes

• Enable drag & drop between Miller columns and views (move by default like Finder)
• Fix column focus handling - clicks and right-clicks properly set focus
• Add getSelectedUrls() to MillerView for proper multi-selection support
• Fix context menu to work with focused column, not just last column
• Filter duplicate selection indexes (only count column 0)
• Pass folder URL to empty space context menu
• Add dark theme scrollbar styling (#555555 handle, #707070 hover)

KMiller v5.19

Context Menu Overhaul

Bug Fixes

• Miller view multi-selection fixed - Context menu now works with all selected items, not just the clicked one
• Removed duplicate handler - Fixed potential double context menu issue from viewport backup handler
• Compress/Extract logic fixed - Now correctly handles multi-selection:
  • Extract only shows for single archive selection
  • Compress shows for any selection

New Features

• Selection-aware menu text - Shows item count: "Delete 5 Items Permanently" vs "Delete Permanently"
• Move to Trash option (Ctrl+Backspace) - Safe deletion using KIO trash integration
• Clearer permanent delete warning - Now says "This cannot be undone"
• Keyboard shortcuts in menu - All actions now show their shortcuts

Menu Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
Open	Ctrl+Down
Quick Look	Space
Cut	Ctrl+X
Copy	Ctrl+C
Paste	Ctrl+V
Duplicate	Ctrl+D
Rename	F2
Move to Trash	Ctrl+Backspace
Delete Permanently	Shift+Delete
New Folder	Ctrl+Shift+N
Properties	Alt+Return

KMiller v5.18

Keyboard Shortcuts and Status Bar Improvements

New Features

• Ctrl+Up: Go to enclosing folder (Finder standard)
• Ctrl+Down: Open selected file/folder (Finder standard)
• Ctrl+Shift+H: Toggle hidden files visibility
• Ctrl+Shift+G: Go to Folder dialog with path auto-completion
• Status bar now shows file size totals for selected items (e.g., "3 of 127 selected, 2.4 MB total")

Documentation

• Added ROADMAP.md with 100 proposed features organized by category
• Prioritization analysis with recommended implementation order

Technical Changes

• Added openSelected() method to Pane for keyboard activation
• Added currentUrl() getter to Pane
• Updated statusChanged signal to include file size information
• Go to Folder dialog includes shell-style path completion

KMiller v5.17: Miller columns UX overhaul

What's New

Miller Columns UX Overhaul

• Single-click folder navigation - Click a folder to enter it (classic Finder behavior)
• Tab title updates dynamically - Shows current folder name as you navigate
• Proper first-item selection - Always selects the first alphabetical item when entering folders
• Focus on startup - Arrow keys work immediately without clicking first

QuickLook Improvements

• Rewritten to be minimal and frameless (like macOS)
• Dark theme, no buttons - keyboard only (Space/Esc to close, Up/Down to navigate)

Visual Polish

• Dark inactive selection color (#505050) for previous column highlights
• Preview pane text respects theme (transparent background)
• Default start path / with proper tab name handling

Technical

• Added Pane::focusView() and MillerView::focusLastColumn() for proper focus management
• Added navigatedTo signal for URL change tracking
• Fixed async sort timing with layoutChanged signal

KMiller v0.5.2

Full Changelog: v0.4.7...v0.5.2

KMiller v0.4.2 (Alpha Release)

First working prototype of KMiller.
Proof of concept: includes Miller Columns view and Quick Look preview.
Many features are incomplete or buggy — not intended for daily use yet.
Does not yet have full basic File Manager functionality