A few display wishes/questions

[Jibz]

1) In the folder tree, is it possible to change the little +/- square next to folders with subfolders to be white inside instead of the shaded half-gray it is at the moment? it looks more dirty than fancy on my screen.

2) In the folder tree, is it possible to disable showing the lines that indicate depth (the dotted vertical ones)?

3) When I right-click the empty space in the folder tree a menu with places comes up, the icons on that menu are all 'shady', like they were at 50% brightness or something. Is this a bug or intentional? The same goes for the Recent Locations menu from the toolbar.

[admin]

1) In the folder tree, is it possible to change the little +/- square next to folders with subfolders to be white inside instead of the shaded half-gray it is at the moment? it looks more dirty than fancy on my screen.

2) In the folder tree, is it possible to disable showing the lines that indicate depth (the dotted vertical ones)?

3) When I right-click the empty space in the folder tree a menu with places comes up, the icons on that menu are all 'shady', like they were at 50% brightness or something. Is this a bug or intentional? The same goes for the Recent Locations menu from the toolbar.

1) INI-tweak: FlatPlusMinus=1 (how to tweak: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3543)
2) menu Tools / Customize Tree / Show Lines
3) hmm, works fine here (XP + Win7/64)

Could it be that your screen color depth is not 32 bit?

[j_c_hallgren]

1) In the folder tree, is it possible to change the little +/- square next to folders with subfolders to be white inside instead of the shaded half-gray it is at the moment?

1) INI-tweak: FlatPlusMinus=1

Just a followup for those on older vers:

As of v9.11.0011

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* Configuration | Colors & Styles: Downgraded "Flat plus-minus icons in tree" to tweak level.
  Key: FlatPlusMinus

so it's now a tweak but it was a Config option.

[Jibz]

1) INI-tweak: FlatPlusMinus=1 (how to tweak: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3543)
2) menu Tools / Customize Tree / Show Lines
3) hmm, works fine here (XP + Win7/64)

Could it be that your screen color depth is not 32 bit?

Thanks for the solutions to the first two, looks a lot tidier now .

I am running in 32-bit WinXP with all the latest patches at the moment, screen depth is 32bit. Here is a screenshot where you can see how the icons in the menu are a darker color than the ones in the tree:

[j_c_hallgren]

Here is a screenshot where you can see how the icons in the menu are a darker color than the ones in the tree:

Welll, do you think maybe the fact that the menu has a gray background to it has some effect on this? I don't believe you can expect both tree and menu to show same colors when background differs that much...at least, that's my feeling.

[Jibz]

Welll, do you think maybe the fact that the menu has a gray background to it has some effect on this? I don't believe you can expect both tree and menu to show same colors when background differs that much...at least, that's my feeling.

Only if the icons use alpha which I assume they do not. DO uses the same icons in it's menus and they are the right color there.

[admin]

Welll, do you think maybe the fact that the menu has a gray background to it has some effect on this? I don't believe you can expect both tree and menu to show same colors when background differs that much...at least, that's my feeling.

Only if the icons use alpha which I assume they do not. DO uses the same icons in it's menus and they are the right color there.

The way they are done (actually: have to be done) the background does play a role. Nothing can change this.

[Jibz]

Gives some terrible results if you don't use the default windows color theme ..



Maybe you would be better off not showing an icon if it can't be done right?

[Jibz]

Just for reference, here is the favorites menu from DO which somehow manages to get the icons right



I don't know if it's because it's a different type of menu or something, but the icons are the right color on the gray background (and in other color themes as well).

[admin]

Gives some terrible results if you don't use the default windows color theme ..



Maybe you would be better off not showing an icon if it can't be done right?

Yes, maybe. But no complaints yet (apart from yours).

[Jibz]

Yes, maybe. But no complaints yet (apart from yours).

Ah well, that's certainly a good reason not to fix it .

But fun aside, of course it's low priority if no one else thinks it's a problem.