Breadcrumb

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Just a couple of remarks regarding this new & pretty cool feature:

- When you added the Arrow sidekick on the TB, you removed the right-click, I wish you hadn't. It just easier to aim for the full button & right-click than go for that little arrow; so just like with the back/forward buttons the right-click comes in handy I think.

- I think it'd be nice to actually have a Breadcrumb submenu on the List context menu, between Up & Back. Would be a quicker access than having to go all the way to the TB :D
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jacky wrote: It just easier to aim for the full button & right-click than go for that little arrow;
Sorry jacky, but I DEFINITELY disagree! :roll:
As I've stated in other threads, on my laptop with touchpad, I go out of my way sometimes to avoid a right-click! I'd much rather use my pad to move to the arrow, and then just tap my pad...much easier for me and less finger/thumb action!

The one thing I noticed about breadcrumb feature: When I use Cntl+Backspace, I get a "ding"/bell sound...I don't recall any other key combo in Xy causing this...
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- When you added the Arrow sidekick on the TB, you removed the right-click, I wish you hadn't.

I think it'd be nice to actually have a Breadcrumb submenu on the List context menu, between Up & Back. Would be a quicker access than having to go all the way to the TB :D
I most heartily agree on both points here.

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John Bee wrote:
- When you added the Arrow sidekick on the TB, you removed the right-click, I wish you hadn't.

I think it'd be nice to actually have a Breadcrumb submenu on the List context menu, between Up & Back. Would be a quicker access than having to go all the way to the TB :D
I most heartily agree on both points here.
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j_c_hallgren wrote:
jacky wrote: It just easier to aim for the full button & right-click than go for that little arrow;
Sorry jacky, but I DEFINITELY disagree! :roll:
As I've stated in other threads, on my laptop with touchpad, I go out of my way sometimes to avoid a right-click! I'd much rather use my pad to move to the arrow, and then just tap my pad...much easier for me and less finger/thumb action!
Don't panic, the other will come back but the arrow will stay.
j_c_hallgren wrote:The one thing I noticed about breadcrumb feature: When I use Cntl+Backspace, I get a "ding"/bell sound...I don't recall any other key combo in Xy causing this...
Shit! :evil:
I also noted that Shift+Backspace was not so clever neither, because it opens new tabs because of the Shift key being down. Gotta do some cleaning there... grrrmble...

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jacky wrote:the List context menu, between Up & Back.
jacky, bear with me...I'm having one of those senior moments :oops: ...where are you speaking of, exactly? Just a bit :?

Don, I'm sorry! :oops: I didn't mean to "ring your bell" that badly :roll:
Just happened to notice the lack of silence..
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j_c_hallgren wrote:
jacky wrote:the List context menu, between Up & Back.
jacky, bear with me...I'm having one of those senior moments :oops: ...where are you speaking of, exactly? Just a bit :?

Don, I'm sorry! :oops: I didn't mean to "ring your bell" that badly :roll:
Just happened to notice the lack of silence..
jacky means the list's white space context menu -- you don't know it because you don't use the right mouse button and you always forget about the context menu keyboard button! :P

There's another "ding"-combo: Alt+Enter, actually Alt+almost anything... it means: "no such menu accelarator found". But Ctrl+Backspace??? Why the hell does it ding? Arrgh.

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admin wrote:jacky means the list's white space context menu -- you don't know it because you don't use the right mouse button and you always forget about the context menu keyboard button! :P
Oh.. :oops: well, in this case it was because almost all of the time, I have a file selected in list so I get the "info/rename/etc" menu on Context key...

And I never said I don't use right mouse, just that I avoid it if at all possible, as inconvenient for me...also, yes, I had "lost" the location of kkeyboard context key for years(?), but that's partially due to Dell layout with it up above F9 and left of Print Srceen...on 'real' keyboards, it's mostly to right of spacebar..the other keyboard thread a while ago helped me "find" it and now I use it more often, so..THANKS! 8)
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Wow, this is truly a handy and yet one more major time-saving feature for XYplorer. When I'm downloading Usenet files by folder, sometimes they get assigned deep down in the folder's hierarchy (usually it's about 4-5 folders deep). And now all the keyboard shortcuts are aligned, too:

F7 — Backspace — SHIFT+Backspace — CTRL+Backspace — ALT+Left — ALT+Right

I can remember all of these without tasking my very ordinary brain and it's done before I ever need to touch the mouse.
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admin wrote:There's another "ding"-combo: Alt+Enter, actually Alt+almost anything... it means: "no such menu accelarator found". But Ctrl+Backspace??? Why the hell does it ding? Arrgh.
Wait a minute there... :shock:

You mean Alt-D that I've been using blindly from the second day I installed XY to focus the address bar (firefox legacy...) dings because it's not a valid menu accelerator?

/me heads to the keyboard reference in the help file.
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agnul wrote:You mean Alt-D that I've been using blindly from the second day I installed XY to focus the address bar (firefox legacy...) dings because it's not a valid menu accelerator?
Exactly. If there were a valid menu accelerator then Alt+D would open that menu.

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admin wrote:Exactly. If there were a valid menu accelerator then Alt+D would open that menu.
That of course begs the question... could you please promote "Alt-D" to official shortcuttedness (too early in the morning, I'm making up words :roll:) and remove the "ding"? I've just checked the help and there's no official shortcut for "Focus address bar" yet...

If Alt-D is no shortcut of yours, why does it do what I assumed it would? :shock:
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agnul wrote:
admin wrote:Exactly. If there were a valid menu accelerator then Alt+D would open that menu.
That of course begs the question... could you please promote "Alt-D" to official shortcuttedness (too early in the morning, I'm making up words :roll:) and remove the "ding"? I've just checked the help and there's no official shortcut for "Focus address bar" yet...

If Alt-D is no shortcut of yours, why does it do what I assumed it would? :shock:
From the history:

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v4.60.0038 - 18.05.06 12:55
    + New keyboard shortcuts:
        Alt+C: focus Catalog.
        Alt+D: focus Address Bar.
Both ding. All ALT+Letter shortcuts are a "ding" in the ass, that's why I did not heavily promote these two in the help file. There is nothing I can do about it (it's built into the language XY is written in :( ).

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admin wrote:From the history...
Whoops, really too early in the morning :roll:

Damn computer languages, I'll have to get used to that :P
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admin wrote:
John Bee wrote:
- When you added the Arrow sidekick on the TB, you removed the right-click, I wish you hadn't.

I think it'd be nice to actually have a Breadcrumb submenu on the List context menu, between Up & Back. Would be a quicker access than having to go all the way to the TB :D
I most heartily agree on both points here.
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:cry: I see you haven't added the submenu, but it'll come right?
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