Altap Salamander

Altap Salamander

Developer(s)	ALTAP
Stable release	4.0[1][2]  / 11 June 2019
Preview release	3.0 beta 4[3][2]  / 29 November 2013
Repository	github.com/OpenSalamander/salamander
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Orthodox file manager
License	GPL-2.0[4]
Website	www.altap.cz

Altap Salamander (formerly known as Servant Salamander) is a freeware orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows, originally inspired by Norton Commander. In contrast to several other file managers, it has a context aware user interface hiding complexity – for instance, the bottom function list changes on press of modifier keys, just showing the currently available hotkey function set.[5]

Release history

Servant Salamander 1.0 development was started in 1996 as a hobby project by Petr Šolín (from Czech Republic) during his studies at university and released as freeware in 1997. It was originally written in Watcom C++, later in Visual C++ 6.0.

Altap Salamander 2.0 the first shareware version was released in 2001 by a newly established company Altap. Salamander 2.0 included support for viewer and archiver plugins. During the development of 2.5 version the plugin architecture was expanded to support file system plugins to support FTP and other protocols.

Altap Salamander 2.5 plugin SDK allows plugin developers to create new viewer plugins (for file previews), archiver plugins (for browsing, unpacking, or packing archive files), file system plugins (for custom directory listing) and tools (like multi-rename or file compare). Custom column plugins known from Total Commander are not supported, neither yet non-latin alphabets of the Unicode.

Altap Salamander 3.x version series newly supports the Windows 7 and higher, two binaries are available, for users' choice: 32-bit and 64-bit.

Altap Salamander 4.0 was released are freeware in 2019 in the aftermath of Altap's acquisition by Fine.[6] however active development has been indefinitely suspended as of July 2019.[7]

Open Salamander 5.0. as open source code was released on December 4, 2023[8] under the GPL-2.0 license, no packages "releases" are yet published.[9]

See also

• comparison of file managers

References

1. https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/40/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. https://www.altap.cz/salamander/changelogs/30b4/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "LICENSE". OpenSalamander/salamander repo. Altap. 4 December 2024 – via GitHub.
5. Hoffman, J. K. (6 May 2014). "Altap Salamander". Diary of a network geek. Retrieved 21 January 2017. You can also use the context-sensitive menu to rename and delete files or directories, create directories, edit files or use the built-in viewer to preview files, all with the touch of a function key.
6. "Altap Salamander is now a freeware". www.altap.cz. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
7. "Is Salamander dead? - Page 4 - Altap Salamander Support Forums". forum.altap.cz. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
8. "Open Salamander is now released and we look forward to its further development on GitHub". forum.altap.cz.
9. "OpenSalamander/salamander: Open Salamander". GitHub. Archived from the original on 19 September 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Release Notes