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PeaZip screenshots: file manager, archive browser


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FILE MANAGER, ARCHIVE BROWSER

DRAG & DROP, CONTEXT MENU



Archive browser and file manager


PeaZip's Address bar shows navigation controls to explore the filesystem and the archive's content, a breadcrumb address filed, search button (to find content in the filesystem or in the open archive as well), and a quick navigation menu to manage Bookmarks and jump to preferred destinations, History (visited paths), and relevant filesystem locations such as Desktop, Downloads, Home folder, root / My Computer, etc.
The navigation area on the left of the file browser panel can show a tree view of the filesystem, or a smart tree view (default) showing current archive's tree view, bookmarks, history, relevant system's paths, common functions, etc.
The file browser / archive browser area on the right can be set in large or small (default) details mode, the colums - each can be enadled or disabled - showing file type, size (and compressed size, exploring archives supporting this meta data), modified, accessed and creation time, attributes, and optionally CRC / hash of files.
Examples or the degree of customization that can be reached with different themes and with settings - hiding or showing tool bar, tab bar, main menu, chnaging file browser style, etc - are showcased in the Themes page.

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Screenshot 1: file manager exploring a path on Windows, in details mode. On the left the smart treeview.

PeaZip tabs


PeaZip provides an (optionally) tabbed file explorer and archive manager GUI.
The Tab bar can be shown, on the top of the address bar (and below the Tab bar, that can be hidden), using "Open in a new tab" entry in context menu or address bar context menu.
Tabs can be arranged, sorted, closed (single or groups), collapsed, expanded, and added to Bookmarks from Tab bar's context menu.

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Screenshot 2: tabbed file manager, Tool bar and main menu are hidden to focus more on file browsing features


PeaZip file manager


The file browser can be set to list mode - displaying files in multiple columns - or in Icons and images mode, which shows files as large icons and displays preview of graphich files (not inside archive, as for security reason no content is even automatically uncompressed unless explicitly requested by the user).
From main menu > Organize it is possible to set Enlarge file broser icons which is especially handy when it is needed to use the app as an image viewer, as in the screenshot above.

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Screenshot 3: the file manager in (large) Icons and images mode, showing thumbnails of pictures


PeaZip archive browser


When reading the content of an archive file, for most common formats (7z, cab, iso, jar, rar, tar, zip, zipx...) it is shown the archive (or package) structure tree on the left navigation area, for quick inspection of the content and for fast browsing to desired node.
The archive browser will automatically open, by default (can be changed in Options > Settings), the TAR archive inside compressed tar files, like .gz, .bz, and .xz files.
Please not that to browse the content of a spanned archive set, you need to click on the first volume of the set (with extension 001, Z01, R01 or similar) and browse the archive as usual.

F6 toggles flat mode browsing, switching from explorer-like archive view to showing all content at same time, with full path displayed on the rightmost column of the file browser; only flat mode view is enabled for .ace and .arc formats; .pea format does not show archive table of content (no content listing mode is currently implemented).


Dark mode


PeaZip fully support dark mode on Windows, macOS, BSD, and Linux with different Desktop Environments: Gnome and derivatives (DE such as Cinnamon and MATE), KDE, XFCE... dark mode is basically supported by PeaZip on any system that is correctly passing to the application the real system's colors.
To set PeaZip in dark mode on Linux or BSD it is sufficient to set a dark theme for the desktop environment, and most DE will pass correct colors to application's GUI, menus, etc, next time PeaZip is started.
To set PeaZip in dark mode on macOS it is sufficient to set macOS in dark mode: System Preferences > General, select "Dark" or "Auto" in Appearance section.
To set PeaZip to dark mode on Windows it is possible either to set Dark mode in Personalization > Colors, or to set an Hig contrast (or any other Windows Theme with dak color scheme) in Settings > Ease of Access > High contrast.

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Screnshot: PeaZip in dark mode on macOS

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Screnshot: PeaZip in dark mode on FreeBSD

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Screnshot: PeaZip in dark mode on Linux (Mint)


PeaZip Dark mode on Windows


PeaZip fully support Windows dark modes.

On Windows 10 and later systems the dark mode is set separately - by design - for UWP / ”modern” apps (from Personalization > Colors) and for Win32 (from Settings > Ease of Access > High contrast), leading to inconsistencies in color schemes between the two types of apps - including parts of the OS itself.

PeaZip supports both darlk mode methods so in Windows 10 and later systems it is possible to run PeaZip in dark mode either setting system to Dark mode, or setting system in High contrast mode.
The first method provides the better visual result, but the latter method has the advantage of applying a dark color palette to all Win32 apps at once.

Running PeaZip in dark mode on older Windows systems simply require to set a dark Windows Theme, this will change the colors of the app elements accordingly to the system theme colors.

On W10+ systems the app, which by default follows system colors, can be manually forced to light or dark mode, regardless system settings, creating an empty file named "light" or "dark" in the same path of the executable (this mechanism is currently not integrated with Themes due to technical limitations)

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Custom themes

If it is preferred to change the look & feel of PeaZip application only, from PeaZip Options > Settings > Theme it is possible to change app's contrast, color temperature, accent color, and background color - which furter helps in customizing the app's own "darkness" within the limits to preserve legibility of system-drawn widgets (which cannot be drawn by the application in custom colors).

The app background color can be personalized freely with a color picker control, and there are also available various neutral dark pre-sets as well as tints like Graphite (cold gray), Mocha (warm, coffee gray), Plum (rose tinted gray), and Senape (yellowish tinted gray).

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Supported Operating Systems screenshots

PeaZip is a cross platform file archiver software, supporting creation and extraction of multiple archive formats on BSD, Linux, Darwin/macOS, Windows and other operating systems / architectures combinations supported by Lazarus/FPC IDE.
When compiled for Win32 or Win64, it supports Microsoft Windows systems, XP and Vista / 7 / 8.x / 10 /11  family, both 32 bit and 64 bit versions (64 bit Windows system can run both native Win64 version, or 32 bit version through WoW64 subsystem), and API compatible Wine / ReactOS platforms.
The program can also be natively compiled, either with GTK2 or Qt widget set, for Linux x86 and Linux x86-64, pre-packed as DEB (Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix, ...), RPM (Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, Red Hat, ArkLinux), TGZ (Slackware), and TAR.GZ (portable, installation not required).
Experimental versions exists for ARM Linux and BSD.

Portable versions of of PeaZip cross-platform file archiver software are available for all supported platforms, those versions does not require installation and can be used simply unzipping the program's folder to the desired directory, and starting the application clicking on peazip executable.

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PeaZip running on Windows XP

Synopsis: PeaZip file manager / archive explorer screenshots, dark theme, high contrast mode. File manager look and feel on various supported operating systems (Linux; Windows) and widget sets (GTK, Qt, Win32)

Topics: Screenshots of PeaZip file manager and archive browser GUI on different systems, dark mode

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