Clickable breadcrumbs.

[aliteralmind]

I wrote this before reading this mega thread: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 9&p=115858

The breadcrumb bar is fundamental to how I use XY. Here are my biggest wishes for it:
1. Once a dropdown is displayed, that you can move your mouse over another triangle to pop it open, without any clicking. As mentioned, it's useful when you click on the wrong triangle, or just want to browse the structure.
2. I like the ability to have the navigational arrows at the left of the crumb bar, but I have no use for the back and forward (left and right) arrows. It takes up a lot of space with all four arrows. It would be nice to separately choose left/right, and up/down.
3. I *really* don't like how far I have to travel to switch drives, when clicking on the left-most arrow. I *never* use the "aliteralmind" or "Documents" folders! Nor, for that matter, do I ever use the E:\ or X:\ drives (for automated backup/restore only).



Windows Explorer is also guilty of this (I never use hardly any of those "special" folders):



I wish it were like this:



Two larger wishes:

- That you could drag a file over a triangle and drop it into one of the items, and optionally go there.
- That sub-SUB folders were displayed, a'la Xplorer2. However, what would make Xplorer2's nice-to-have feature, into a killer one, would be the ability to minify it (don't display less-used folders in the list) as is currently possible in the tree.

[CompSystems]

I want to see the arrow icon to the right [>] a bit higher, much better if it occupies the entire height of the bar, as in the following explorer

[Filehero]

..., much better if it occupies the entire height of the bar, as in the following explorer

Why?

When I look at your shot I really happen to disagree. Firstly, despite its measurable height the triangle is muck less obvious and notable. And secondly, the triangle does not appear to offer an own context or to be an individual navigation element but rather being "just" a plain path separator only.


Cheers,
Filehero

[bdeshi]

Also note how much space the stylized triangle is taking up. Thank goodness XY has the option to show slashes instead!

[CompSystems]

...
When I look at your shot I really happen to disagree. Firstly, despite its measurable height the triangle is muck less obvious and notable. And secondly, the triangle does not appear to offer an own context or to be an individual navigation element but rather being "just" a plain path separator only.

it is true, but changing background on the triangle, is known to be Clickable, and can be a good idea to add at the end a ¨tab¨ to create a new folder

The following is an image I've done

[Enternal]

Bumping the wish to traverse folders with breadcrumbs.

2015-02-06 03_21_06-Q-Dir 6.06.png (11.27 KiB) Viewed 2371 times

[Enternal]

When you click on the triangle/slashes in the breadcrumb bar, the current location is bolded. Could you perhaps add the option so that the list will automatically scroll down to have the bolded folder in view? It's really useful for example if you're browsing a folder with a hierachy like:

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01
02
03
04
05
06
...

So you are looking through folder 01 and want to go to the next folder, you could simply just pull down the breadcrumb and just select folder 02 and then repeat for the other folders. The problem is that when you have many many folders, you will eventually have to scroll the list a lot by the time you get to folder 50.

[admin]

Good idea, done.

[Enternal]

Thanks! Works great!