XYplorer Beta Club

Just a few things I'd like to see:

- on tree, Shift+click == new tab, Ctrl+click == new background tab; on list, Shift+dbl-click == new tab, but Ctrl+dbl-click doesnt open a new background tab. Would be nice if it would

- middle-click to open in a new tab doesnt work on the Catalog (Ctrl/Shift work)

- same idea, if a "middle-double-click" or whatever its called would open a new tab, since middle-click on tree does so, could be nice

- I'd like to have an option so middle-clicked tabs (aka tabs opened using a middle-(double-)click) could be opened in the background.

- Id would personally love it if, when closing the active tab, the one that gets activated would be the one on the LEFT, and not on the right.
It makes more sense to me to have it that way, and that's how I set it up in Maxthon, and it always confuses me when the right tab gets activated. If under "Open new tab next to current" we could have "Activate left tab on closing" or something like that, would be great!!

Some of your wishes can't be fulfilled for various reasons. Here's what works:

jacky wrote:- middle-click to open in a new tab doesnt work on the Catalog (Ctrl/Shift work)

Okay.

jacky wrote:- Id would personally love it if, when closing the active tab, the one that gets activated would be the one on the LEFT, and not on the right.
It makes more sense to me to have it that way, and that's how I set it up in Maxthon, and it always confuses me when the right tab gets activated. If under "Open new tab next to current" we could have "Activate left tab on closing" or something like that, would be great!!

Hm. That's really an option in Maxthon? Normal Windows behavior is to try to keep the selected *position* which (in left-to-right top-to-bottom worlds) means shift focus to the next/right/below item.

admin wrote:Hm. That's really an option in Maxthon? Normal Windows behavior is to try to keep the selected *position* which (in left-to-right top-to-bottom worlds) means shift focus to the next/right/below item.

Yes it is. Actually one of the reason I love Maxthon so much is that it is highly configurable, so I could set its behavior (how tabs works, mouse gestures, etc) that way I want/need it to be.

I know the default way to go is activate right tab, and new ones are opened on the extreme right. I just don't like that at all, to me it is way more natural to have a new tab open at the right of the current one, and when i close the current one I go back to the one on the left.
See this, I have: Tab1 / Tab2 / Tab3
I'm on Tab1 & open a new one that gets activated, I now have: Tab1 / Tab4 / Tab2 / Tab3
I do what I need to do here, then I close that newly created tab, I want to get back to the way things were before, aka Tab1 / Tab2 / Tab3 and focus on Tab1 !!

Creation, goes to the right. Closing, to the left.
This behavior just sounds so natural to me, I always gets confused when the tab activated is the one on the right.

Actually, just for information & to proove I'm not one crazy guy , speaking of this I went to check how it works in EditPadLite, which uses tabs too. When I close the active tab, focus is given to the one of the left too. (and this is its default behavior)


Oh, and does that mean you're not going for an option so middle-clicked tabs (aka tabs opened using a middle-(double-)click) could be opened in the background" ?

admin wrote:

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Catalog: added MiddleClick to "Open in New Tab"; equivalent to Shift+LeftClick

hmm.. doesnt work here Item get focused on the Catalog but no new tab nor changes of location....

jacky wrote:...Creation, goes to the right. Closing, to the left.

Good speech, jacky. I'm convinced.

jacky wrote:Oh, and does that mean you're not going for an option so middle-clicked tabs (aka tabs opened using a middle-(double-)click) could be opened in the background" ?

There's Ctrl+Click, why should I add Ctrl+MiddleClick?

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:

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Catalog: added MiddleClick to "Open in New Tab"; equivalent to Shift+LeftClick

hmm.. doesnt work here Item get focused on the Catalog but no new tab nor changes of location....

I really should test my new features before releasing them... ... fix is coming, thanks.

jacky wrote:"Activate left tab on closing" or something like that, would be great!!

All English speakers please cast your vote for or against this wording (incl. alternative suggestions).

EDIT: case closed, I chose "Activate left tab on closing current".

admin wrote:

jacky wrote:...Creation, goes to the right. Closing, to the left.

Good speech, jacky. I'm convinced.

Sweet, I'm enjoying this already! Thank You

admin wrote:There's Ctrl+Click, why should I add Ctrl+MiddleClick?

Oh.. bit of misunderstanding here I think. What I meant was, to open a location in a new tab, there is indeed Ctrl or Shift whether or not we want it to be activated.
But, I'd like an option to control how the shortcut that is the middle click behave. So one can choose to have middle click open new tabs in the background

admin wrote:

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Menu Edit: added command "Search Templates... (Ctrl+F9)", hereby 
      also available in the list's white space context menu. 
      The same command is repeated in menu Tools.

This is pretty cool! I would just suggest that, when we click on "Load Template" it would show the panel on search location (what Ctrl+F does)

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:There's Ctrl+Click, why should I add Ctrl+MiddleClick?

Oh.. bit of misunderstanding here I think. What I meant was, to open a location in a new tab, there is indeed Ctrl or Shift whether or not we want it to be activated.
But, I'd like an option to control how the shortcut that is the middle click behave. So one can choose to have middle click open new tabs in the background

Ah, okay, nice idea but: for reasons i'm too lazy to explain i'm too lazy to do this

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:

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Menu Edit: added command "Search Templates... (Ctrl+F9)", hereby 
      also available in the list's white space context menu. 
      The same command is repeated in menu Tools.

This is pretty cool! I would just suggest that, when we click on "Load Template" it would show the panel on search location (what Ctrl+F does)

Oh, I tought it was especially cool to use templates without having to see the panel

admin wrote:Ah, okay, nice idea but: for reasons i'm too lazy to explain i'm too lazy to do this

admin wrote:Oh, I tought it was especially cool to use templates without having to see the panel

Well.. I find it a bit confusing, cause since the panel is off you might wonder if it even did anything
And also, most of my templates are not for searches I do over & over again, but are like... templates Meaning they'll have all the basics set up right, but I'll always have to fill in one field or the other (file name, content, etc)

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:Oh, I tought it was especially cool to use templates without having to see the panel

Well.. I find it a bit confusing, cause since the panel is off you might wonder if it even did anything
And also, most of my templates are not for searches I do over & over again, but are like... templates Meaning they'll have all the basics set up right, but I'll always have to fill in one field or the other (file name, content, etc)

Okay, but there might be other opinions/usages... I'd rather ask you to Ctrl+F yourself
(let's keep a rest of smartness in the user)

admin wrote:Okay, but there might be other opinions/usages... I'd rather ask you to Ctrl+F yourself
(let's keep a rest of smartness in the user)

hehe.. yeah sure.

Or you could add, in the "Search Templates" window, another checkbox "Show search panel" :lazy: