Some feature suggestions

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Here's a few more ideas I ran across:

-Icons for favorites
I had to create manual buttons because I wasn't able to set those. Also, I haven't found a way to specify how the text label in a favorite list in a toolbar should be displayed. I'd like to remove the label (hence the icons)

-3-way button:
Ability to set which button should be used for a command. If you want to use the middle mouse button you always have to make an empty command for the right button?

-Command for new file:
I haven't found this, but similar to the CreateFolder command there should be a CreateFile command that creates an empty file.

-Simple search field like in browsers:
Not really needed, but a simple search field like in Firefox or Opera right of the address bar would be nice. Alternatively, a textfield element in a toolbar with customizable actions could be used for that (by flattening the current folder and applying a filter)

-possibly an middle-click->"open in new tab in background" option.
Yes I read the FAQ, but that's not quite what I meant. The marking files with middle mouse button is nice, but as you can also use ctrl for it it's a bit redundant IMO.

-Ability to remove buttons in pane-frame:
If you don't have any use for those they are just visually distracting. I saw an option to remove two of them, but there's still some left.

-Ordering tabs with drag and drop:
This is something that every tab bar should support, I even use a program for the windows taskbar to allow me to do this :wink:

-Disable tab renaming:
Again, if you don't need it, it's just distracting. Maybe I'm a bit nitpicky, but it should be just a simple option.

Just a few ideas, would be cool to see some of them implemented. If you have any idea how to accomplish any of those things in the current version please let me know.

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Two more things:

-Allow file pane bar be used as address bar too
This would save the need for a single address bar for both panes.

-Add a button to that pane to go to the desktop
Since the desktop is structurally the top element, it would be nice to have a link to it in the file pane bar on the left.

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I know - by reading a bit more of manual and trying to do a few things yourself. How on Earth do you try to drag tabs if you can't reorder them with dnd???

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I know that I can't, I just believe that it should be possible, hence the thread title.

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Yes you can drag tabs around. The trick is to grab them by the icon rather than the label (if you drag from the label you are actually dragging the folder itself rather than the tab).

One other thing you asked for - CreateFile - you can do using the Filetype NEW command.

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You can also drag a tab from one file display to another or even to another Lister. If you hold control when you drag a tab you can make a copy of it instead of moving it. :slight_smile:

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-Icons for favorites: Favorites should use the same icons that the folders use.

-Simple search field like in browsers: Opus already has that for the current directory. If you want to search sub-directories as well then you can create a button which runs the Find command and prompts you for a simple search string.

-possibly an middle-click->"open in new tab in background" option: Can be done with double-middle-click right now, but not a single-middle-click.

-Ability to remove buttons in pane-frame: Yeah, I've been thinking they should all be configurable.

-Add a button to that pane to go to the desktop: FWIW I have a toolbar buttons which goes there. I guess it could be included in the file display border as well but personally I'd turn it off to save space. :slight_smile:

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[quote="Seriesrenamer"]
-Command for new file:
I haven't found this, but similar to the CreateFolder command there should be a CreateFile command that creates an empty file.[/quote]

Try this button code:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none"> <label>Create empty file</label> <icon1>#default:rename4</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>@set name={dlgstringS|Enter File Name|Readme.txt}</instruction> <instruction>copy FILE=&quot;nul&quot; AS=&quot;{$name}&quot; HERE</instruction> <instruction>select {$name}</instruction> </function> </button>