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Mike Baxter · Post by **Mike Baxter** » 2004 Oct 11, 17:09

Love this program, particularly for the multiple panes.

Here's why I'm posting. It's not because I like to read my own inner voice on the screen. Rather, being a graphic designer I have thousands of folders to keep under control, so I like the 'detail' view for that. Also, I have even more thousands of graphics and images to keep under control, so I like the 'thumbnail' view for that.

What would make things really fine would be a quick key to switch between 'detail' and 'thumbnail' view. Who in their right mind -- and that includes all users of this program, of course! -- would want the other views, I don't know, but I suppose for consistency you'd need quick keys for those too. Anyway, the reason is, who uses 2 clicks for one operation these days...? Except in regular Windows folders, that is... !

And now for the part where I really act like the spoiled brat... how about a full screen image view, with conversions to JPEG, rotations and so on? So I can put ACDSee in the trash once and for all

... OK, Ok , forget I said that I'll go back to my room

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Oct 11, 17:36

for easy access to the views menu you can either put the views button on a toolbar (using customization) or press Ctrl+Alt+V to pop it and then u for thumbnails or d for details. Not a single click but definitely an improvement on explorer!

Mike Baxter · Post by **Mike Baxter** » 2004 Oct 11, 22:22

Nikos
Congratulations on this awesome program. Yes, I saw the way you suggested.

I also saw somewhere you have some custom key shortcuts in the works for later. I guess it's not something you can just do when nothing's on the TV that night..., so I'll look forward to that when it comes.

THANKS AGAIN

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Oct 12, 02:00

Not being a graphics designer; but being an engineer who uses graphics a lot to get my points across with minimal words, and having transitioned to digital photography -- I, like Mike Baxter, value both ACDsee & xplorer² (even though I have only 100s of folders with more 100s of pics).
I also find myself using ACDsee less & xplorer² more for browsing my pics.

So I had this idea for a new browsing mode: mirror browsing with twist (more like through the looking glass browsing). I want to make the view mode 'sticky by pane' so I could keep one pane in thumbnail view while the other shows the same folder in details mode, and the view mode.

What an idea! ... EXCEPT ... that when I removed the desktop.ini files that I have been using to force thumbnail viewing in my pic folders I discovered that x² already worked that way until I messed it up !!

Bottom line is just a tip for a 'different' way of browsing pic folders:
nikos, you're a genious.

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2004 Oct 12, 04:42

So I had this idea for a new browsing mode: mirror browsing with twist (more like through the looking glass browsing). I want to make the view mode 'sticky by pane' so I could keep one pane in thumbnail view while the other shows the same folder in details mode, and the view mode.

This tip is already described in the manual since v1.0.0.1!

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Oct 12, 07:05

so what does ac/dc do that x2 doesn't?
(as long as it is file management and not graphics related)

chp · Post by **chp** » 2004 Oct 12, 07:37

full screen / actual size / fit to screen / manual zooming and rotating.
But what's the difference to using some freeware that would open image instead of x2?

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