I'm using Vista. Since Windows Explorer, no matter how nice it is, has got very annoying bugs, I'm thinking about finding an Explorer replacement.
D/led DO9 trial and installed it. Seemed no prob.
I've tried the settings and read the manual, I couldn't find some information. So I thought I just ask in this forum
How do you change the icon size for "Large Icon" view from its default 30x30 to another customized size (I'm using 1600x1200 screen, so 30x30 is WAY to small). Please note, it's not thumbnail size, but icon size. This mean it will also apply to icons for .exe .dll .mp3 .jpg etc..
Almost same thing, how do you change the icon size for "Tiled View". I only found a setting for "thumbnail size". So if I change the thumnail size to 96x96, icon for non-thumbnail-enabled file (such as .exe and the rest of other types) will still be a 30x30 in a middle of a white 96x96 icon.
Is there anyway to use the default Windows explorer folder icon. I know that windows folder icon is dynamic. The folder icon changes depends on the folder contents.
Thanks. Everything else okay, just need to know those things first. I'm one of the few guys who don't like "Details View" I always prefer icons view. Seems like Icon view is not so focused in DO9.
I don't think you can at the moment (unless the system-wide "large icons" option has an effect, which I'm not sure about).
Go to Preferences -> Lister Display Modes -> Tiles Mode and you can adjust the size there.
Do you mean for the main window icon in the top-left corner? That always displays the Opus icon and indicates the type of lister (source/destination/dual/off). You can change the colours it uses but not the shape.
Opus now uses its own code to do the Icon mode (in earlier versions it used a standard Windows list control which was fairly limited) so there is probably scope for improving it now if you file a feature request, but it might get a low priority if it's not easy to do as I don't think many Opus users use Icon mode very often and there's always so much else to do. (I don't know the code so I don't know whether a Vista-style icon-size slider would be difficult or easy. There's no harm in asking for the feature and seeing what happens.)
I don't think you can at the moment (unless the system-wide "large icons" option has an effect, which I'm not sure about).
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Damn I really wanted that feature.
Go to Preferences -> Lister Display Modes -> Tiles Mode and you can adjust the size there.
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But..(sigh)...that's what I said in the first post. I found only thumbnail size. Couldn't find icon size. So even if I resize the thumbsize to 256x256, the icon size will still be a 30x30 small in the center of a 256x256 white box. Dunno why DO9 doesn't enlarge the icon.
Actually, not that. Just the icon for the folder. For example if there's a folder named "New Folder". The icon of that folder in Vista is a picture of a yellow folder half opened viewed from top isometric.
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Opus now uses its own code to do the Icon mode (in earlier versions it used a standard Windows list control which was fairly limited) so there is probably scope for improving it now if you file a feature request, but it might get a low priority if it's not easy to do as I don't think many Opus users use Icon mode very often and there's always so much else to do. (I don't know the code so I don't know whether a Vista-style icon-size slider would be difficult or easy. There's no harm in asking for the feature and seeing what happens.)[/quote]
The large and small icon sizes come from Windows (and the large is 32x32 by default, not 30x30.)
You can change this from the Display Properties (classic Appearance Settings in Vista), but just changing the number doesn't magically mean every program is going to have a nice icon at that size - most icons will end up scaled and jagged.
This shows how Directory Opus 9 looks better in XP than in Vista.
In XP, editing a value in registry (small/tree/list/detail) icon size can be set at will and looks very beautiful. Default folder icons can be customized at will.
In Vista Explorer icons are dynamic in the right browse panel but static and small in the tree panel.
In Vista, Directory Opus 9 have small and not zoomable icons, both in tree and browse panel.
Can you add a feature to set the default size of icons (both panels) as in XP ? Sizes don't need be zoomable, but at least with not-fixed size.
Vista 256x256 PNG icons are not yet supported in Opus, at least not in Thumbnails mode which I assume is what you're interested in. (They might work on toolbars and in the folder tree if you set things big enough; not sure. 256x256 icons there would be pretty crazy though. I've never tried setting the actual icon modes to anywhere near that big but I assume that 256x256 icons won't work there either since they don't work in thumbnails mode at the moment.)
(When I say "don't work" I mean that one of the smaller icon sizes is displayed instead.)
On of the updates to version 9 added support for this. Not sure of the exact version and date but since all minor updates are free I don't see why it matters so much?
Apart from the Large and Small icon modes there's no way to specify icon sizes in a folder format in any existing version of Opus. You can change that the Large and Small sizes are by changing the appropriate Windows settings, but those cannot be changed per folder format. (You can also change the size of Thumbnails that Opus uses but we're talking about icons rather than thumbnails I think.)
Vista 256x256 PNG icons are not yet supported in Opus, at least not in Thumbnails mode which I assume is what you're interested in. (They might work on toolbars and in the folder tree if you set things big enough; not sure.)[/quote]
In Xp I can specify the icons (small icons folder) at will with a registry setting ("Shell Small Icons Size").
But not in Vista! See the picture I posted above.
Ok, not in folder formats.
But how can I specify size of icons in Small and Large Modes changing the appropriate Windows Vista settings?
Can I specify size of icons in Details Mode too?
Thank you
I don't know, sorry. I didn't know it was different in Vista and have never tried to change it. I suspect it would break a bunch of programs that assume it's the normal size.
The setting isn't part of Explorer, it's part of Windows itself. (It's like the settings which define the height of titlebars and the colours of windows.)
Before Vista there was very little point allowing bigger icon sizes as very few icons were larger than 32x32. Maybe it's worth adding to Opus now that Vista and 256x256 icons are fairly common. If you want it ask GPSoft for it.
When you send the request to GPSoft be sure to make clear all the places you want to be able to have larger icons. (e.g. Folder tree, Icon Mode, anything else.)
I really wanted that feature.
