Version 6.2.3 of Default Folder X is available, and it delivers an array of improvements and fixes (like you couldn’t have guessed that 😁).
Quick Search now searches for open and recently closed Finder windows in addition to favorites and recent files, folders and apps. The Open With menu – which you can access by holding down the Command key and mousing over any file in Default Folder X’s menus – supplies a less overwhelming list of available applications. And Tahoe users will now see a full complement of menu item icons in Default Folder X’s menu:
I know the icons are a little thing, but the unbalanced look was driving me nuts with just the icons that Tahoe provides by default.
There’s also more accurate tracking of recently opened files when you’re using Java apps, and all recent files are shown when using a file dialog presented by Keyboard Maestro‘s macro engine. The font size in Default Folder X’s menus is adjustable via a Terminal command, and you can specify a minimum size for file dialogs (check out the release notes for details on those).
On the bug fix front, delays that some people experienced in Open and Save dialogs have been eliminated. And a bug in Tahoe that caused various failures in Default Folder X has been dealt with – it prevented the path menu in file dialogs from updating, caused the Quick Search keyboard shortcut to work unreliably, and got DFX’s list of Finder windows out of sync, among other things. The gist of it is that the macOS Accessibility API stops reporting that a user interface item has disappeared, and that could get Default Folder X quite confused. DFX now works around those missing signals by using other methods to get (roughly) the same information.
As usual, this update is free to everyone with a license for Default Folder X version 6 (thank you again!), and there’s a 30-day free trial if you haven’t tried Default Folder X yet (you really should!). Download links and full a list of the changes in version 6.2.3 are available on the What’s New page.
