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by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 04, 16:39
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Toolbar - Label Size
Replies: 2
Views: 242

Re: Toolbar - Label Size

Tools -> Advanced Options -> Layout Settings (Tab) -> Max Button Width Set it to something quite high, like 150, so the label-text may extend beyond the borders of the icon itself. The default is 64. is there a way to set a single hotkey to go straight to Customize\Folder Groups? You won't get the ...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 04, 00:12
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

...but also including licensing restrictions which make redistribution gross, at best. The GNU LGPL doesn't seem very draconian... just the usual stuff about releasing source-code with it, etc, and probably not using it to scam little old ladies out of their poodle's inheritance money. :shrug: I al...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 03, 19:20
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Ok, I'm less happy now - it appears Qt is aimed squarely at C++, and is (much like raw COM) apparently somewhat painful to use in proper C (not impossible, just irritating); I am not slumming it in C++ just to become a cross-dressing masochist in my old age. And yeah, the redist's seem somewhat dist...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 03, 11:52
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

...there is no actively recommended and developed GUI framework for pure desktop applications anymore if you do not intend to dig into the ugly waters of the WinAPI Ugly is as ugly does... one of these days I'll look into Qt as a going concern, but every time I sit down and say "Today's the da...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 22:44
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Last time I checked MinGW (at least the 64-bit version), there were a lot of DLLs involved. Well sure, as part of the compiler (no one ever said you had to use them, or worse, redistribute them). And almost all of them are for C++, not C. I was referring to just the simple ability to write a "...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 19:34
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Unless you already use Visual Studio which reduces the additionally used bytes to 0. Ah, but what was the overhead of the VS download in the first-place, never mind disc-space, registry flogging, and endless endless endless updates of .NET? (And I mean frikkin' endless .) A fully-stocked dual-compi...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 17:04
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

I actually doubt that GCC is a nice environment for anything related to WinAPI development. Carefully adjusting your bits and bytes to work as low-level as possible ... Not so bad as all that... MinGW takes much of the pain out of it... in fact about the only thing I've seen that needs special atte...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 16:26
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

As opposed to an UN worthy complaint? Well, worthy in the sense of the lad who cried wolf... one thing leads to another and before you know it, the stork is bringing you a special unwanted bundle of peculiarities. :shrug: I'm doing my best to at least pester him into a hissy fit on this one, so may...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 12:55
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Nikos is just trying to change the subject, away from UI symmetry and onto the nuclear family - like 8 legs aren't enough to confuse the average load of washed socks. That's a dirty trick in more ways than one. Do you intend to make x² more family-friendly with blue/reddish gumball animations Judgin...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 06:23
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Ah hah! I knew the old cynic was still reading even when he pretends not to. Remember, a more symmetrical context menu can set you free! Really! Every now and then even PJ makes a worthy complaint. :D
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 02, 06:00
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Aging gives me a longer and more excessive mid-life crisis than I was hoping in the first place <Applause> You'd be surprised (or, actually, you probably wouldn't be surprised) how that sentiment is rather drastically misunderstood by 89.4% of the world's population. And the remaining 10.6% are sup...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 01, 21:27
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

It might not surprise you that I have a copy of Munch's Skrik in my living room as it (and the complimentary diary entry) describes my general feeling rather well. What surprises me is that you have a living room! I always pictured you as a paranoid schizophrenic living alone in a smoke-stained one...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 01, 20:47
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

World's greatest artists, including painters, deliberately got rid of symmetry in their most famous - not necessarily, but irregularly also: best - works. There must be something wrong with the equation of symmetry and greatness. Not something "wrong", just something evolutionary. The rem...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 01, 14:22
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

Anorakish Ergonomics: 1 Nikos: 0 See, people are dumb. It's a fact. God gives them a whole skull full of deliciously concatenated protoplasm, and they use it to watch the Kardashians and post on Facebook: Good for them. I like Baywatch re-runs: Good for me. However, like many users here (I should im...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 01, 06:21
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Symmetry
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: Symmetry

1. ...then you'd have to type the path as opposed to getting it free of charge... Apparently you've never had to duplicate a complex user-command, like the rest of us do a million times a week. Users shouldn't experience menus as "a frustrating last resort", they should see them as the fi...