Picked up Open Salamander project to improve it with AI

[0xeb]

So, I started letting loose the AI on the code base. I am not really reading much of the code, but guiding the AI (Vibe coding so to say).
In all cases, I don't plan to follow the development of this original fork since it was moving slow.
I will keep rebasing and taking changes if they make sense.
Otherwise, Open Salamander on https://github.com/0xeb/salamander/ will move faster.

For now, there's release 5.0.1 now here: https://github.com/0xeb/salamander/releases

I added CMake support, ARM64 native builds, and experimental long path support.

[0xeb]

Also, fixed the issue that was preventing it from running under Wine64.

[ags1234]

Hey, congrats for picking this up!
For me one of the magical things about the Salamander was it's amazingly small size. And the fact that it did not depend on frameworks.
But... there's always a but :)
Your build is ~53 MiB and the latest build of OpenSalamander-x64, from 02.2025, is ~19 MiB. That's more than double the size! What went wrong? :))

Also, why is there a "/t" in front of the key combo in the menu? Might be a typo.
And the key combinations... some of them are aligned to the right, some of them not...

[0xeb]

@ags1234 , thanks for the feedback!

Menu /t issue - Fixed in v5.0.2. A previous commit accidentally corrupted \t escape sequences to /t in the RC files.

Build size (53M vs 19M) - The release (from my fork) includes .pdb debug symbol files (44M). The actual binaries are ~6M - smaller than both the commercial Salamander (33M) and the official OpenSalamander build (19M).

I include PDBs intentionally so crash dumps can be symbolicated. If you delete the .pdb files, you'll get a ~6M package.

Keep the reports coming, I try to make slow but consistent progress instead of no progress at all. So, bugs are welcome.

Finally, 5.0.2 has experimental Unicode support now.

[ags1234]

Keep the reports coming

Haha, nice! I'll see what I can find.

I try to make slow but consistent progress instead of no progress at all. So, bugs are welcome.
Finally, 5.0.2 has experimental Unicode support now.

Absolutely amazing news!! 💯

Also, after deleting the pdb files, your Salamander is the smallest orthodox file manager that I know of and has recent builds and does not depend on frameworks. Even EF Commander, which is small, is ~10 MiB.

How about adding dark mode? :))

[ags1234]

Found something!
More of that /t in Alt + F1/F2 menu :)

[0xeb]

@ags1234 , thanks again! much appreciated. I enabled issues here: https://github.com/0xeb/salamander/issues .

I could not repro the Alt-F1, etc. menu. Please try this build: https://github.com/0xeb/salamander/releases/tag/v5.0.3