Spring 2021: color themes, custom themes and a new settings editor

Between March and May 2021, Shrestha Files gained color and hero themes, themes you can make yourself, a new settings editor, and support for older Windows 10 versions.

Colorful themes are one of the things people know S Files Pro X for. They started in the spring of 2021.

A new settings editor and color themes (version 0.38)

Version 0.38 (March 3) previewed a new settings editor, opened with Ctrl+P, and with it the first color themes. They were experimental: some looked best on the dark base theme and others on the light one. The same release:

  • added Ctrl+H to switch between single and dual pane, requested by Parasec Glenkwyst,
  • let bookmarks remember a default view type,
  • remembered which sidebar items were expanded or collapsed.
Nine Shrestha Files windows stacked diagonally over a lake landscape, each in a different color theme, from teal, olive and red to purple, pink, blue, green and dark
The first color themes, in March 2021.

Properties and search (version 0.39)

Version 0.39 (March 24) moved everything into the new settings experience and added a basic Properties viewer and an experimental extended search.

More Windows versions, better navigation (versions 0.41 and 0.43)

  • 0.41 (April 13) added support for Windows 10 version 1809 and newer, put an icon on every right-click menu item, and added a default sort order for new tabs.
  • 0.43 (April 17) made the mouse’s back and forward buttons work, and added Win+Backspace and the gamepad B button to go back.

Make your own theme (versions 0.44 and 0.45)

  • 0.44 (April 25) let you add your own custom themes, with more themes shared on the Discord server.
  • 0.45 (May 10) improved the standard and “hero” themes and included a sample theme in the custom theme folder, as a starting point for your own.

Version 0.45 also added:

  • Ctrl + mouse wheel to change the view type, requested by Kweku,
  • sorting by clicking a column header in the detailed list view,
  • Share in the right-click menu for files and folders.
The original Shrestha Files in a teal theme over a snowy background, showing a folder of winter photos
The teal theme in the original Shrestha Files, as it looked in May 2022.

See today’s themes and icon packs, and every version in the changelog.

From a blue folder to a ribbon S: the S Files logo through the years

How the S Files Pro X logo changed from 2020 to today: from a plain blue folder, to an S on a folder, to the ribbon S in three colors, and back onto a folder.

September 2026: sharper icons, fewer crashes and an updated foundation

Versions 3.25 to 3.27 move S Files Pro X to the latest Windows App SDK and fix crashes, locked files and blurry icons. S Renamer 1.2 gets a new rename engine.

Column view and the command palette are now standard

After months as experiments, Miller column view and the command palette became regular settings in version 3.21, along with phones and cameras on the Home page.