Cynthia Moore wrote:Baloney. Explorer, with all its warts, is the standard that all users are used to. If you are going to write a replacement, it needs to do whatever it is that the thing it is replacing does.
Again XYplorer fully supports properly developed context menu extensions - just like Explorer.
The problem is and always has been that certain extensions check which program is calling them and where they are running then refuse to work in anything other than Explorer. It's nothing that Explorer or XYplorer are doing it is entirely these extensions and that's their choice.
You even verified this yourself (emphasis mine):
Cynthia Moore wrote:I've checked with several other file managers. It looks like none of them are able to get the Carbonite right-click menu extensions to work. So it appears that Carbonite is either intentionally making this only work with WE or they have inept programmers and just don't give a damn. Based on a number of "features" in their UI, I'm voting for the latter.
If I get up the energy, I might send a complaint to Carbonite, but they have not been responsive in the past and their UI has been getting worse and worse for several years.
And I really do hope you have complained to them because unlike XY they don't seem to have a forum accessible to potential customers - one must pay to complain.
Cynthia Moore wrote:It knew about this one long ago.
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XY already knew about it and chose not to disclose it.
I cannot find evidence of either of these statements.
You brought up the issue and some members of the XY community did some searching and discovered that Carbonite documents that aspects of their program cannot work outside of Windows Explorer. Another member elaborated that this is similar to a poorly developed extension from another company.
At best it was known that a user had problems with Carbonite's
overlay icons but it was never fully investigated or discovered what the actual problem was and with overlay icons there's always two more likely culprits than the extension limiting itself to Explorer. Further, the extension which controls overlay icons is different from that which provides the context menu.
There isn't some conspiracy where this has been known about and covered up for years. In fact the limited mentions of Carbonite around here show that there doesn't appear to be much overlap in customers.
Good luck finding a better file manager!
