Yes, this is a great program... that I cared enough to come and post in hopes that this is fixed and I can use it in the future, you do have what looks to be quite the advanced file manager here. Except for above...
Ok, so if the reason is performance and memory, if you add it in, do what good developers always do, make it an option. Then everyone's happy
As more and more people have 3+ghz machines with 2+ GBs of ram, such an option wouldn't really have that great an impact I think.
But in all honesty, yes, though it does sound a little ridiculous, sometimes the basic things are important to people, and if it wasn't for this, I'd have no reason not to purchase this program last night when I tried it again.
Actually while were on the issue, it's technically two things I see that I believe should have some fixing.
2) As you can also from my two pictures above, I just realized, XYplorer is not rendering the folder icons properly in it's display either. They're setup to be represented by icons as well as you can see from explorer's screenshot.
I have a ligitimate reason for wanting this to work too, I have a great program (freeware too), which lets me assign folders a color in order to help me keep organzied, much like how you can do that to anything on a mac. That and certain applications use folder icons, and well, there really seems to be no good reason against it that I can see, except for the usual we can only do so much...
But hey, thanks again for listening to my two cents, and like I said, the fact that I care to complain in the first place is really a compliment!
Edit:
Ender, I noticed this, too, but unlike you, I thought it was for consistency with the file tree, since the three options change icon spacing, not their size. Ninety-five percent of the time I'm a list view guy myself. It seems one of the main goals of XYplorer is speed and efficiency — visually, time-wise, and in its operations, and if I'm choosing XYplorer, the last thing I want to do is head toward big fat icon land.
I hear what you're saying, but I find explorer's rending of the folder no less structured than XYplorer's, and to be frank, the above one looks quite pointless, even ridiculous. I suppose it was never intended to be used that way, so I have to factor that in, but this seemed like it would be basic functionality.
Actually, thanks, you brought up what I believe to be the third thing missing from this program (see it really needed more inspiration from explorer).
The ability to assign/have remembered specific view settings for specific folders, and not others.
Ender, I'm asking out of curiosity: have you ever used DOS or Unix? I presume you came to computers after Windows 3.1 or 95 and like many depend on both visual cues and the mouse a great deal. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that I've never needed an icon to tell me what kind of file/s I have in any given folder.
Started on DOS actually. But like I said, icons can help with organization (colors indicate status on parts of jobs), icons can also be visually pleasing too, I just can't buy the argument for why pictures would scale to thumbnails, but not everything else, when most picture folders would have a lot more thumbnails than your average folder without them.
So to wrap up some features that would be useful to me (the second I believe would be useful to a lot of people, but I'm not certain these aren't all already implemented):
1) In icon/thumbnail view modes, the
option of the icons/thumbnails drawn to the full size.
2) Color coating files/folders (folders could be done already, if the program could read folder icons)
3) The option to make the program save view settings per folder. This is useful when I like to override a column's width in certain folders, or have certain folders view settings come up as icons instead of details when accessed.
Again everything could be an option, though I can't see too many people being upset from the above additions, because they all have to be requested by the user anyway to take place in the first place.
95% of the time I would be using the detailed view, but I feel like the icon/thumbnail view is broken right now. Also I would like the detail view to have the option to pick up folder icons if they have them assigned. And the option to have the folder's view settings saved per folder. Well I think that thoroughly explains it all, time to wait and hope!
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