I am happy to announce the release of Portfolio 1.0.0! This new release is the first step in the modernization process to GTK 4 and Libadwaita. It’s also a continuation to my efforts of bringing a minimalist file manager to the mobile Linux community, with a few important bug fixes.
As a starting point for the modernization process, this new version of Portfolio preserves the exact same design, in a GTK 4 flavor. A few reasons for that.
First, although I wish everyone was distributing applications using Flatpak, I want to reduce friction for the mobile Linux distributions, by sticking to currently available APIs. Second, I want to spend more time experimenting with newer Libadwaita widgets, specially with the ones from the upcoming 1.4 release, as these could require redesigning a few aspects of Portfolio’s graphical interface.
On the maintenance side of things, I fixed a major issue which prevented some files to be sent to the trash and another that prevented displaying progress while moving files, among other minor fixes. Porting widgets to Libadwaita fixed one annoying issue which prevented swapping back, so that’s a big free win.
Even before all of this work ever happened, I spent some time refactoring the project into smaller, more modular, pieces. This helped significantly to the porting process and it will ensure an easier maintenance move forward. So expect more refactors to come.
