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The one thing that could be improved though is rounding out the corners of the tabs themselves, so they look more modern like what's in Windows 11 File Explorer.
Turning on Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced [Cosmetic]: gloss_and_gradients will give you rounded tabs, originally designed for old OS like XP through to Windows 7. Round UI elements are "modern" again, but also very old.
Microsoft can't make up their minds.In the future, we'll separate this setting out, and make it automatically round tabs on Windows 11 (with an override for people who prefer them square), as it also affects a few other things.
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#2 There is no margin to the left of the list like in File Explorer. This makes it impossible to select files by click and dragging a bounding box around them.
You can add a blank column there if you want, but Opus also has alternative ways to multi-select files that don't require you to aim at a narrow strip like in File Explorer.
My preference is to set File selection / highlighting style to Full width of the Name column (under Preferences / File Display Modes / Details). This is like full-row selection but the selection box ends at the end of the Name column, allowing you to drag select starting from anywhere to the right of it. Power Mode also has various mouse selection modes you can use where you can drag-select from within the Name column itself (although I don't personally like them).
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Clicking a folder shortcut opens a new tab or Opus instance, unlike how I have it in File Explorer, which keeps such navigation all within the same tab. Is there an option somewhere i missed to keep shortcut navigation to the same tab?
Yes: Preferences / Launching Opus / Explorer Replacement.
(Assuming you mean things clicked outside of Opus. Within Opus, clicking a folder or shortcut should already keep it within the current tab, unless you're configured things in an unusual way.)
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#4 "Read/change folder" sound plays when opening Directory Opus and new tabs. This is not like File Explorer, which is silent when opening instances and tabs.
No sounds play by default. If you configure sounds to play when reading/changing folders, opening a new tab counts as a folder read/change.
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#5 When I click on "This PC" in the file tree, and it renames itself to "Drives". This quirky behavior doesn't exist with File Explorer. What's the purpose of that?
Sounds like you have messed around with Preferences / Folder Tree / Contents / Start Folder Tree At. Change it back to Desktop.
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#6 Why am I seeing .url on my internet links?
Because those are the real filenames and Opus aims not to hide file extensions by default (other than for .lnk shortcuts, as a special case). However, we're adding an option for it fairly soon (code is already written and being tested at the moment).
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#7 When designing software that is meant to replace something else, it should be elementary that it first starts with the features/capabilities of what you are replacing, right?
You don't mention which features you think are missing, so I can't respond to that. If you want to request a change, please put the details in a separate thread. But also keep in mind that Opus is not File Explorer. If you want exactly the same as File Explorer then you'll only get that in File Explorer. Even then, File Explorer is constantly changing (in fairly random ways). Some of the choices in File Explorer are also bad, and you've said as much yourself, so we are not going to copy everything it does.
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