Status update - FireCat milestone 6 is finished and something about the future
Time for next update about the project. Important thing: the previous video from the youtube channel showed milestone 6 in development. The milestone has been finished and here I will describe the changes since February.
New apps
This update brings 2 new apps - image viewer and text editor. Currently they are very poor. A text editor gives us ability to open text files.
File path need to be added as a parameter in the terminal. In the near future, saving and opening files will be possible using FireCat file selector (it's not done). As you can see in the video, there is poor syntax highlighting - now only generic xml and generic for C-like languages.
Desktop
This update adds better and paginated desktop menu.
Browser
From now speed dial works - currently we can only add new items and we can't update or remove tiles. As you can see in the video, a new download manager has appeared - it has been implemented for the web browser mode - now the folder icon does not work.
Terminal
The core of the terminal has been a little bit rewritten and the tab view mode has been implemented.
There is no changes on the other apps.
What's next?
I will start working on the next (and last) 7th milestone on May 12th. In addition, I will publish a draft version of the release plan and I want to publish news about the project regularly.
That's all in this article! Stay tuned!