Feedback on "Open Folders in Tabs"

[grparry]

Thanks for the new "Open Folders in Tabs" feature. Here are a few things that would make it even better.

1) To ease the addition of a current folder to the catalog, I propose some combination of (a) Allow dragging the current tab over to the catalog, (b) add to the tab's right-click context menu the ability to add the tab to the catalog, (c) add to the "Insert as new category here" (in the catalog's context menu) an option to add all currently open tab locations.

2) It would be GREAT if when tab location(s) are added to the catalog, if the catalog not only remembered the folder location(s), but also the currently selected item(s) and the name(s) of the tab(s). Even if it could only remember the first selected item, this would still be a big plus.

3) It would be nice to be able to easily add a "Special System Folder" into the catalog. This would be a great addition to support the idea of going away from the Tree View completely and just using the catalog.

Thanks for considering these ideas!

[serendipity]

Hi,

1) (a)&(b) i understand such options would be nice. But one problem is if you have many categories where will those tab locations get added?
(c) Its already there. Insert as new category here>tabs.

2) You can do that:
if you have say "C:\Program Files\" in catalog and want to select first file, then simply make it into a script.
::goto C:\Program Files\; sel 1
the above script will go to that location and select first file. Infact there are many many more things you can do from catalog.
And in the second part, it remembers only location as of now. But you can always rename it.

3) Yup, that has been asked before. As of now you have to add manually.

And yes, I too have replaced tree with catalog.

Update:
I got the below variables from Wiki. Majority of the system folders are there. You can simply copy-paste them into "Tools>List management>Favorite folders" in editor mode. And from catalog's right-click add those favorite folders as category.

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%allusersprofile%
%appdata%
%commonprogramfiles%
%programfiles%
%systemdrive%
%systemroot%
%temp%
%tmp%
%userprofile%
%windir%
%computer%
%desktop%
%net%
%personal%
%desktopreal%
%personalreal%
%winsysdir%

[jacky]

2) It would be GREAT if when tab location(s) are added to the catalog, if the catalog not only remembered the folder location(s), but also the currently selected item(s) and the name(s) of the tab(s). Even if it could only remember the first selected item, this would still be a big plus.

Well, right now it's only the ability to open tabs from folders in a category on Catalog, or create a new category with opened tabs. Later on, the ability to actually store tabs inside the Catalog might come, and this would - I believe - include selections, tab's name, Home settings, maybe scroll position...

[admin]

Thanks for the new "Open Folders in Tabs" feature. Here are a few things that would make it even better.

1) To ease the addition of a current folder to the catalog, I propose some combination of (a) Allow dragging the current tab over to the catalog, (b) add to the tab's right-click context menu the ability to add the tab to the catalog, (c) add to the "Insert as new category here" (in the catalog's context menu) an option to add all currently open tab locations.

(a) would be nice and natural, maybe later...
(b) menu is already too long
(c) already there: "Tabs"

I might add a scripting command CatalogInsert later that you can attach a KS to via UDC (hope you get this XY slang...). Or I simply ad a misc command "Add Current Selections/Path to Catalog". Either way would make it much easier to use the Catalog as a quick temporary drop stack where you collect some stuff for a single operation.