In ForkLift 4.7.3, our main focus was on Icon View. We brought back some of the behavior from earlier native macOS versions that had disappeared over the years and was not included in ForkLift 4.

You can now navigate across rows with the arrow keys, so navigation no longer stops at the end of a row. It is also possible to select a range of items, even across multiple rows, by holding down the Shift key and clicking the first and last item in the selection. You can extend the selection further with either Shift-click or Command-click.

We also improved drag selection in Icon View. Previously, selecting multiple items with the mouse could sometimes be difficult because dragging would start instead of creating a selection. The dimensions of items are now better defined, making the behavior of dragging and drag-selecting much closer to what you see in Finder.

We believe these improvements make working in Icon View much smoother and more intuitive.

Full List of changes:

New

• In Icon View, you can navigate to the next row by pressing the Right Arrow key at the end of a row
• In Icon View, you can navigate to the previous row by pressing the Left Arrow key at the beginning of a row
• Range selection with Shift-click in Icon View
• Open in New Window context menu item for tabs
• Home and End keys in Icon View to jump to the beginning or end of the file view

Improvements

• Improved drag selection in Icon View
• Improved stability and performance to help prevent possible crashes and hangs

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