Download Peazip 2.4

Today version 2.4 of Peazip was released. Peazip is an open source archiving program that tries to differentiate itself from the competition by specializing in security. Encrypting data is therefore the spearhead of our own pea format. The program can create 7z, bz2, gz, paq/lpaq, pea, quad, tar, upx and zip files and extract various file formats including ace, arj, cab, deb, iso, lha , rar and rpm. Here’s what’s changed in this release:

GUI

• Allowed proportional toolbar buttons as option to allow fit longer text of some localizations
• Autosized or optionally custom sized height for UI items, to fix visual issues with certain default setting of font size / window decorations (ie Ubuntu Linux, Windows at 120 DPI)
• (Windows) Drag and drop form (transparent) follows the mouse and shows source, destination and content being dragged
• Esc remapped to cancel current selection and cut/copy/past operations, and to stop drag and drop operations on Windows
• New icons for unsupported files, executables/installers and MSOffice/OpenOffice files (which are opened with system’s associated action by default); icons are made transparent on Cut operation

Archive manager

• Files and folders being added to archive’s layout are displayed in application’s windows title bar
• If the archive is in a read only path, preview are transparently done using a temporary work path accessible to current user, and “Extract here” popup directory selection dialog to chose a writeable path

File manager

• (Windows) Added shortcuts to user’s document folder path
• Cut/copy/paste clipboard:
  • clipboard content shown in Options” Panel in file browser
    • single items can be removed from clipboard to further refine the selection
  • option to keep in clipboard multiple (and mixed) cut/copy operations
• (Windows) Improved system’s paths recognition if methods based on environment variables fails, including the case of username containing extended characters
• File/folders list and info functions implemented as part of PEA, so will run in parallel in a separate process
• More info about machine and filesystem in I/O panel
• Simple hexadecimal preview implemented in PEA
• Updated web search functions: search in Google video, Wiktionary, Commons, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Yahoo and Yahoo answers

misc

• Built with Lazarus 0.9.26
• (Linux) Installable packages now places PeaZip folder in /usr/share/ (it needs new PeaZip UNACE plugin package)

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