New extension: file browser panel

Jakub Pavlík

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Feb 22, 2026, 3:43:04 PM (7 days ago) Feb 22

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Being used to coding editors, one thing I've long missed in Frescobaldi is a panel with a tree view of directories and files (useful for finding and opening files, unlike the Documents panel). Here comes an extension providing such a panel:

https://github.com/igneus/frescobaldi-file-browser-extension

It resulted from a short vibecoding ride with Claude Code, so I'm author of the specification, not that much of the implementation. But I've reviewed every single code change.

Regards, Jakub

Knute Snortum

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Feb 22, 2026, 5:41:02 PM (7 days ago) Feb 22

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Nice extension! It seems to work well. I'll be banging on it to see how sturdy it is.

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Knute Snortum

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Feb 22, 2026, 6:15:20 PM (7 days ago) Feb 22

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM Knute Snortum <ksno...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice extension! It seems to work well. I'll be banging on it to see how sturdy it is.

I've run into a bug that doesn't seem to be connected with your extensions, but it makes using extensions impossible for me. All the custom keyboard shortcuts disappear after I set the base extension directory and restart. I'll be file a bug report.

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Knute Snortum

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Feb 22, 2026, 7:56:18 PM (7 days ago) Feb 22

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM Knute Snortum <ksno...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've run into a bug that doesn't seem to be connected with your extensions, but it makes using extensions impossible for me. All the custom keyboard shortcuts disappear after I set the base extension directory and restart. I'll be file a bug report.

Okay, playing with this more on a Windows machine, it looks like there *is* a problem with this extension specifically. I'll create an issue on your GitHub site.