XYplorer Beta Club

8.50.0023


Sorry, don't know right now, how to describe this all, let's see if i can:

See picture:
1.) the pane 2 didn't respect the settings, i think. Should be max tab width.
2.) some of them show 'Folder name only'

3.) Feature wish: 'Folder name only' should show the drive letter too.

Stefan wrote:3.) Feature wish: 'Folder name only' should show the drive letter too.

I think that would go against it being called "Display Folder name only"

What about a suboption: "[X] With Drive Letter" ?

Or even better a Custom Format Option, so that the User can decide what he need, and what not

Eugen

Stefan wrote:8.50.0023
See picture:
1.) the pane 2 didn't respect the settings, i think. Should be max tab width.
2.) some of them show 'Folder name only'
3.) Feature wish: 'Folder name only' should show the drive letter too.

8.50.0026
Point 1): looks much better today. (no pic added) I will test with other settings and report back.
Point 2): if there is not enough space then the drive letter is sacrificed (see pic).
I would vote to display the drive letter always. He is essential. (That's why i added point 3) too)

EDIT:
This was tested with "one upon the other" panes layout
But it is even more worse in standard panes side-by-side mode. It's hard to guess what folder/share is behind witch tab.

Horizontal Panes: (fitted in column)
NO Horizontal Panes: (side-by-side)
Thanks.

Eugen wrote:What about a suboption: "[X] With Drive Letter" ?

Or even better a Custom Format Option, so that the User can decide what he need, and what not

Eugen

Yes, both things are possible ways. I'd prefer the "[X] With Drive Letter" because it's simple and self-explaining.

No time for this currently though. Bump later...

admin wrote:No time for this currently though. Bump later...

I'll bump it here for "nony" who started another thread but didn't want to follow up here... that thread said:

nony wrote:It would be nice to have a option to always show drive letter in a tab.
Makes it easier to find which drive you are working. As in case of many tabs,the tab will ultimately use the PathCompactPath to shorten path so it would be better to just have to shw drive along with folder name.

jc I just thought that it would have the same effect. Anyways thanks

So what syntax do you suggest here. Like this?

Full
C:\folder
C:\longlonglonglong\folder

Compressed
C:\fold...
C:\..\f...

Well the full path have no problem(unless than misplaced ellipses).
I think another option child of "Display Folder Name Only".
It could be generous allowing user to add in front of or back of Folder name

eg %Drive% - FolderName
(%Drive%)FolderName
FolderName(%Drive%)

or similar.

nony wrote:I think another option child of "Display Folder Name Only".
It could be generous allowing user to add in front of or back of Folder name

eg %Drive% - FolderName
(%Drive%)FolderName
FolderName(%Drive%)

or similar.

I'm quite strenuously against this. "Display Folder Name Only" is unambiguously clear and adding that option will undermine this feature. Better display of compressed paths is the answer.

Improving path shortening is different thing. With drive letter and Folder Name Only you will be sure that where you are working. That shell path shortening function is indeed messy. You are not sure how it's gonna strip the characters with different width.

nony wrote:With drive letter and Folder Name Only you will be sure that where you are working.

Then perhaps one should name their folders precisely to remove any confusion.

That's brilliant one. I will start renaming my folders adding drive letter to each folder. Thanks

nony wrote:That's brilliant one. I will start renaming my folders adding drive letter to each folder. Thanks

Nobody is suggesting that you add drive letters to each folder, so sarcasm was unnecessary there. You chose to tick 'Display folder names only', which displays just the child names. If you have 2 tabs or more that have the same name, then that feature isn't for you, unless you can distinguish between those tabs. More importantly, there's an issue with your naming conventions -- there appears to be a lack of granular clarity.

zer0 wrote:

nony wrote:With drive letter and Folder Name Only you will be sure that where you are working.

Then perhaps one should name their folders precisely to remove any confusion.

zer0: Sorry but I'd say that your answer above has some of sarcasm in it...the common case where folder names are identical but drive letter is the only difference is with an external backup drive which requires that folder structure be the same...so this is the perfect case where displaying the drive letter also becomes vital.

Don: Is there any single 'invalid for file name' character that could be used as alternate for ".." to save some extra tab space? Yes, it'd maybe be unconventional but if documented, might be useful/helpful.

nony wrote:jc I just thought that it would have the same effect. Anyways thanks

It's preferable here to continue the discussion in the existing thread when possible and let the extraneous thread(s) die off.