Tiles View

[grindax]

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[admin]

Perhaps the 3rd line could be used for both Size and Modified? Just something extra to differentiate from Windows Explorer.

Hey, that's a cool idea! But I'm a Details man as well, so the Tiles folks should tell me whether they like your idea!

[nerdweed]

I was a Tiles user, XY made me move to Details view.

The reason I preferred Tiles view is it gave more selection area. The added detail will definitely be useful. I have had to spend some unnecessary click just to see that information at times.

And that can be set to factory default at show age, irrespective of what is set in details view. Else, it would become too long. And it would look really weird when switching between two layouts.

[Slavaon]

Perhaps the 3rd line could be used for both Size and Modified? Just something extra to differentiate from Windows Explorer.

Hey, that's a cool idea! But I'm a Details man as well, so the Tiles folks should tell me whether they like your idea!

+1

[Enternal]

This might be a lot of work but how about making the 2nd and 3rd line customizable?

[admin]

This might be a lot of work but how about making the 2nd and 3rd line customizable?

Sure, that's planned. But first the basic thing. I needed to fill that gap. (I don't really understand why, but apparently many users like the Tiles mode.)

[Slavaon]

(I don't really understand why, but apparently many users like the Tiles mode.)

The list - is too small.
Details - too small and too detailed.
Thumbnail - too big.
Tiles - from each bit of everything - it is universal.

[Enternal]

Each style have their own advantages and disadvantage. Tiles view has a very good balance between all the other types of views which then allows you to switch to other views when necessary. For example, in Q-Dir, I tend to leave it in Tiles view and switch between it and Details view frequently. Plus it looks pretty nice (of course that's a bonus heh)!

Fill the gap? Deciding on what the 3rd line should be? grindax idea seems good. Size and modified date should make it generally very useful for a quick glance.

[admin]

OK.

And I admit: visually I like it. Looks neat.

[admin]

Fill the gap?

No, I meant the missing Tiles view itself was a gap in XY's features. It should have been there all the time. AFAIK it's even the factory default view in Explorer.

[Enternal]

Hahaha it's great that you like it! It does look neat so it's a great addition to XYplorer which surprisingly was missing this feature for so long. Anyway, the gap is now filled and I'm sure in the future, it's going to be a great feature with more enhancements.

[grindax]

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[admin]

a) agreed and done
b) currently not worth the trickyness ... UPDATE: found a way.
c) i will rather enhance the thumbs view

[Enternal]

I can see Tiles potentially being a useful middle-ground between the Details view and Thumbnails view. But probably not without thumbnails being displayed. I tried out Tiles in Windows Explorer and see that it does display thumbnails. So currently XY provides 4 bits of textual information but no thumbnails, while Explorer provides 3 bits of textual information plus thumbnails.

Yeah it only seem to miss being able to display the thumbnails. The main purpose of the Tiles view was to have it as a balance of information which allows you to switch to a different view if necessary so I think it being able to display a thumbnail will be useful. Don I think you should really consider it.

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[j_c_hallgren]

Yeah it only seem to miss being able to display the thumbnails. The main purpose of the Tiles view was to have it as a balance of information which allows you to switch to a different view if necessary so I think it being able to display a thumbnail will be useful. Don I think you should really consider it.

And if displaying thumbs via Tiles would be or cause a performance issue for some, then have that selectable via option/tweak so we can choose icons or thumbs.