Source Menu for Directory Opus 13

jinsight · May 27, 2024, 4:45pm

This is my effort to create a set of toolbars with many of the most common buttons for what Opus can do. There are over a 1,100 buttons across 7 toolbars.

I hope it allows a user to find functions more easily. Also, I hope it is useful as a source or primary toolbar to give one ideas about the breadth of options of Opus that one might want to add to their toolbars. My hope is you will review these toolbars and take buttons from it for your own toolbars. Take the ones that are useful to you and leave the rest.

It is my version of how such a set of toolbars should be structured. As such, it is not based on, nor does it look like, the default Directory Opus configuration which mimics File Explorer by initial default Directory Opus settings.

My design philosophy is:

maximum file list
maximum access to functions used often
minimum space used by toolbars
toolbars only at the top horizontally with a single vertical toolbar between dual file displays

I have two toolbars displayed at all times:
"-Menu JEG" is displayed horizontally at the top which is the source or primary toolbar for many of the features of Opus.
"-Operations JEG" is displayed vertically between dual listers which is tuned to my work flow and might not be of use to many other users. A screen shot is included of my standard lister.

The most screen efficient horizontal toolbar is using only labels. The most screen efficient vertical toolbar is using only icons. My philosophy is to optimize accessing and working with files without the distraction of lots of variation in colors and the sizes of toolbar elements.

I also have a number special purpose toolbars called up and displayed when needed. I have included five of them.

The first three provide the common activities all in one place for these features in Opus:
"-Flat View, Group and Sort JEG.dop"
"-Collections JEG.dop"
"-Favorite Formats JEG"

The next two bars make up my Location Bar setup found under Preferences - Location Bar - Toolbars - Display as a toolbar.
"-File Display Narrow JEG.dop", a modified location bar
"-Drives Location Narrow JEG.dop" which displays my most often visited drives and folders. Substitute your own. This toolbar can hold all the drives, folders and files you access all in a compact space and specific for each file display in a dual lister. Most of the buttons are dual function. You can either open a folder or see a list of its subfolders in order to navigate to one of them. This cuts down on tab proliferation.

I use a number of scripts so I have included a text file with their names and URLs to them, should you wish to use them.

I have included images of my context menus.

I have also included an image of the icon sets I use. All are available in Opus except one, JEG Icons.

If you want to get the most out of this with the least time, look at two toolbars, -Menu JEG.dop with 694 buttons and -Drives Location Narrow JEG.dop with 162 buttons.

Comments, questions or suggestions willingly accepted.

Version 12/20/2024 Silent updates also occur periodically. Check this date for the most recent.

Source Menu for Directory Opus JEG.zip (73.9 KB)

List of Active Scripts.txt (9.0 KB)

Standard Lister