<chapter id="features">
<title>Features</title>
<indexterm>
  <primary>Features</primary>
</indexterm>
<note>
  <para>The most important features and improvements are
  highlighted here, it would make this list too long if we were to
  include 
  <emphasis>all</emphasis> the features and improvements. You will
  discover even more features in this documentation and in the
  &changelog-url; file.</para>
</note>
<para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <title>&ofm-url; features</title>
          <listitem>
            <para>Two powerful and easy to use 
            <link linkend="panels">OFM panels</link>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&cmdline-lnk; and optional
            &termemu-lnk; below.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Strong 
            <link linkend="keyboard-commands">
            keyboard</link>orientation and the ability to perform
            all functions without the mouse.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Context-dependent invocation of scripts and
            programs &eg; mouseclick/enter (execute or
            open with the associated application), F3 (view) and F4
            (edit).</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&usermenu-lnk;, create your own
            customized menu.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>History &eg; 
            <link linkend="folderhistory">Folder History</link>, 
            <link linkend="popular-urls">Popular
            &URL;s</link>, ...</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&vfs-lnk; for &eg;
            &remote-connections-lnk;,
            &archives-lnk;, search results,
            synchronizer.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Powerful internal 
            <link linkend="krviewer">viewer and editor</link> via
            kparts supporting almost every file format.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&advanced-search-module-lnk; :
            searching in archives and search content on remote
            file systems.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Several Panel view modes via the
            &popup-panel-lnk;.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <title>&krusader; tools</title>
          <listitem>
            <para>&remote-connections-lnk; :
            &FTP;/SAMBA with SFTP/SCP support via
            &kioslaves1-url;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&locate-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&syncdirs-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="mount-man">Mount-Manager</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&diskusage-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&rootmode-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <title>&krusader; features</title>
          <listitem>
            <para>Archive Handling: browsing, unpack, pack,
            testing. Supported &archives-lnk; : ace,
            arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and
            7-zip.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="checksum">Checksum
            creation-verification</link> mechanism that supports
            md5, sha1, sha256, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512,
            tiger, whirlpool, cfv and crc.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="calculate">Calculate occupied
            space</link> of files and folders, archives and remote
            filesystems.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="compare-dir">Directory
            comparison</link> and 
            <link linkend="view-menu">filtering</link>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="compare-content">Compare files by
            content</link> via external diff programs like
            &kompare;, &kdiff3-url; or
            &xxdiff-url;.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="multi_rename">Rename</link> files and
            folders via &krename-url;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Completely supports drag'n'drop: drag from
            &konqueror; straight into a .tar.gz file,
            from &krusader;'s panel into the trash-bin,
            the desktop or into &konqueror;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="konfig-advanced">Preserve date</link> for
            local targets at copy/move operations.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>F2 opens a 
            <link linkend="tools-menu">Terminal Window</link> in the
            default directory.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Easy editing of 
            <link linkend="file-menu">file permissions</link> and
            ownership and 
            <link linkend="konfig-looknfeel-operation">Numeric
            permissions</link>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="krusearcher">Selection
            filters</link> used in &eg; Synchronizer and
            KruSearcher.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="jump_back">Jump-Back</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="konfig-general">
            mimetype-aware</link>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="folder-tabs">Tabbed panels</link> and 
            <link linkend="krviewer">Tabbed
            Editor/Viewer</link>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&quick-search-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="splitter">File splitter</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="mouse_gestures">Mouse Gestures</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="list_panel">Quick Navigation</link> in
            the Location Toolbar.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&whatsthis-url; Help function in favour
            of tooltips where reasonable.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&sync-browsing-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <title>Customize &krusader; to your own
          needs</title>
          <listitem>
            <para>
            <link linkend="konfig-startup">
            Konfigurator</link> &krusader;'s
            configuration center.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&main-toolbar-lnk;, 
            <link linkend="actions_toolbar">Actions
            Toolbar</link> for user actions and bookmarks.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="key_bindings">Key-bindings</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link linkend="konfig-color">Colors</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&panel-profiles-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&bookmark-manager-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>&mouse-selection-modes-lnk;</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Many more features can be 
            <link linkend="konfig-startup">configured</link> the way you
            like.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
    </listitem>