Plugins
The panels, the copy engine, the viewer and the keyboard are the application. Connections, archives, viewers and tools are plugins — install the ones you need, and a feature you leave out is simply absent.
Installing
On the first run
The setup wizard lists every plugin. Switch on what you want — each one downloads with everything it needs.
Any time later
Settings → Plugins: install, switch on or off, delete, or update them all at once.
Updates
Installed plugins update themselves when Ice Commander checks for updates, and take effect after a restart.
Write your own
A plugin is one shared library that describes what it offers; the application draws it, on the desktop and in the browser alike. Start from the SDK's worked examples — every plugin below is open source too, so its repository is a working example as well.
Filesystems & connections
FTP
Linux · macOS · WindowsFTP servers in a panel: browse, copy both ways, create folders, rename and delete. Saved in the connection manager like every other connection.
ic-plugin-ftp ↗SFTP
Linux · macOS · WindowsSFTP servers in a panel, with a password or a key — and an SSH terminal on the same server.
ic-plugin-sftp ↗WebDAV
Linux · macOS · WindowsWebDAV servers — Nextcloud, ownCloud, a NAS — in a panel: browse, copy, rename and delete.
ic-plugin-webdav ↗Archives
Linux · macOS · WindowsZIP and TAR archives (.tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2) open as folders, with no temporary files. Copy in and out; packed size and ratio columns.
ic-plugin-archives ↗Torrent
Linux · macOS · WindowsA .torrent opens as a folder: pick the files you want and download just those.
ic-plugin-torrent ↗Node In Net
Linux · macOS · WindowsFolders your other devices share over the Node In Net peer-to-peer network, and a terminal on them when they offer one.
ic-plugin-nodeinnet ↗Viewers & players
Pictures
Linux · macOS · WindowsPNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, TIFF, SVG and more — and the photograph inside a camera RAW file.
ic-plugin-imgviewer ↗Documents
Linux · macOS · WindowsPDF page by page, from any panel — a local disk, an archive or a server. Brings its own PDFium.
ic-plugin-documents ↗Music
Linux · macOS · WindowsPlays a track, with the rest of the folder as its playlist.
ic-plugin-audioplayer ↗Video
Linux · macOS · WindowsPlays video with its own LGPL libmpv — the same player on Linux, macOS and Windows — and streams from FTP, SFTP and WebDAV without a full download.
ic-plugin-videocodecs ↗Tools
Processes
Linux · macOS · WindowsRunning processes as a table in a panel; select them and end them.
ic-plugin-processes ↗System Information
Linux · macOS · WindowsHost, system, CPU, memory, swap, uptime and network addresses, with live CPU and memory charts.
ic-plugin-sysinfo ↗Developer Toolbox
Linux · macOS · WindowsHashes, encodings and JSON formatting, in one window.
ic-plugin-devtools ↗Registry
WindowsBrowses and edits the Windows registry in a panel: keys and values, new, edit and delete.
ic-plugin-registry ↗Where plugins are going
0.8The plugins are being stabilised. The plugin interface may still change between releases — Ice Commander updates the plugins it installed along with itself.
0.9A stable plugin API, and with it an Android version of Ice Commander.
Every plugin is open source under MIT OR Apache-2.0, and so are the plugin API and the SDK for writing your own.