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is there a way to customize large tiles view ?
Right now I'm stuck with very small icons.
Also would like to hide the file date, time and version.
The file name is too short and can't be read for files with long names!
Finally, the spacing (both horizontal and vertical) between the files is too close.

Is there any way to change any of those ? or is tiles view set in stone like everything else in XYplorer ??!

Help!

shadi.lahham wrote:...
Also would like to hide the file date, time and version.
The file name is too short and can't be read for files with long names!
...

+100
I also dream about it!

Unfortunately not. Tiles view is mostly mimicking Windows Explorer so those limitations are from that. There might be a tweak in the XYplorer.ini but I don't know.

"Is there any way to change any of those ? or is tiles view set in stone like everything else in XYplorer ??!"
Sure there are many things set in stone in XYplorer but there are also many things that are flexible. What do you mean by everything?

Enternal wrote:Unfortunately not. Tiles view is mostly mimicking Windows Explorer so those limitations are from that.

Does it ? I'm would be happy with mimicking the Windows Explorer tiles view for example, but on my system WE tiles and XY tiles look totally different as well.

Compare the following 3 screenshots

Could you use moderate screenshot sizes, please?

Thanks,
Filehero

shadi.lahham wrote:Also would like to hide the file date, time and version.

So you don't find the extra info useful? That's what makes XY display better because it does show this...

The file name is too short and can't be read for files with long names!

You can always hover over it to see rest of info and taking that room for date is more important to some of us

Finally, the spacing (both horizontal and vertical) between the files is too close.

Can't recall if there is any tweak(s) related to this but maximizing the nbr of files shown is another of XY goals so spacing may thus need to be less.

And...best to have max 800x600 or similar screenshot sizes posted here (reduce JPG to that if needed) beacsue it makes forum hard to read on some screens.

Filehero wrote:Could you use moderate screenshot sizes, please?

Thanks,
Filehero

Thanks for the suggestion. I will use smaller screenshots in the future.

j_c_hallgren wrote:

shadi.lahham wrote:Also would like to hide the file date, time and version.

So you don't find the extra info useful? That's what makes XY display better because it does show this...

No, when I want to see that much detail I would just switch to "details view".
It should be possible to customize a shortcut key (e.g F12) to be able to switch between two views that the user defines (e.g "tiles" -> "details")

j_c_hallgren wrote:

shadi.lahham wrote:The file name is too short and can't be read for files with long names!

You can always hover over it to see rest of info and taking that room for date is more important to some of us

When I'm in Tiles view I am most interested in a large overview, meaning very large icons and complete filenames, in order to identify the files.
Date, time, should be on hover.
Filesize could be in both.

In tiles view it's more important to have a nice clear representation of files than getting more detail. In detail view it's more important to see more files, more details and be able to quickly sort and filter.

As mentioned above, there should be a very quick way to switch from one to the other.

j_c_hallgren wrote:

shadi.lahham wrote:Finally, the spacing (both horizontal and vertical) between the files is too close.

Can't recall if there is any tweak(s) related to this but maximizing the nbr of files shown is another of XY goals so spacing may thus need to be less.

Maximizing the quantity of files might make sense in details view, not in tiles view. In any case the end user should have complete control over how things look and work, otherwise what's the point ?

j_c_hallgren wrote:

shadi.lahham wrote: And...best to have max 800x600 or similar screenshot sizes posted here (reduce JPG to that if needed) beacsue it makes forum hard to read on some screens.

I will remember that in the future. I didn't know what the forum conventions are. Thanks for the tip

shadi.lahham
It should be possible to customize a shortcut key (e.g F12) to be able to switch between two views that the user defines (e.g "tiles" -> "details")

Now you can make a button to switch types, described here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 526#p78529

When I'm in Tiles view I am most interested in a large overview, meaning very large icons and complete filenames, in order to identify the files.
Date, time, should be on hover.
Filesize could be in both.

In tiles view it's more important to have a nice clear representation of files than getting more detail. In detail view it's more important to see more files, more details and be able to quickly sort and filter.

I fully support all of this!!!
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My model of tile layout:

Slavaon wrote: Now you can make a button to switch types, described here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 526#p78529

Cool thanks for sharing!