Got the alpha now and the first thing I tried was dragging and dropping the tabs. What I hoped for is that you can drag to another pane, because most of the time that I want to drag and drop is to move to another pane. The order within a pane does not matter to me normally.
And another thing. I know that the alpha versions are slow because of the debugging options, but when I do a Alt-F1 to get a lists of disks it take more then 20 seconds! While normally that is within a second. Is there something wrong? Do you want some DBMON information there?
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Maybe this is useful too: Windows XP Professional SP3
Bookmarks and user commands on toolbars are valid drop targets
I can die happy now. Preferably with a rope around my neck in a hotel room in Bangkok, but you know what I mean. A man's gotta meld style with functionality.
WimdeLange wrote:Got the alpha now and the first thing I tried was dragging and dropping the tabs. What I hoped for is that you can drag to another pane, because most of the time that I want to drag and drop is to move to another pane. The order within a pane does not matter to me normally.
You are right, but this what you want is something different than re-ordering the tabs. Re-ordering as until now by repeatedly calling the context command of the tab was the great pain IMO. And for that it is a huge advantage.
For what you want I simply press ctrl-i and I have also the appropriate icon in my toolbar.
Or do you want to move the tab to the other pane, so that the other pane has an additional tab?
Cosmo wrote:You are right, but this what you want is something different than re-ordering the tabs. Re-ordering as until now by repeatedly calling the context command of the tab was the great pain IMO. And for that it is a huge advantage.
For what you want I simply press ctrl-i and I have also the appropriate icon in my toolbar.
Or do you want to move the tab to the other pane, so that the other pane has an additional tab?
I agree on the fact that reordering is now much simpler, but I had never find the need for reordering.
What I do now is I switch to the other pane, do Ctrl-insert (hoping that the directory is not empty) for creating a new tab, switch back, do ctrl-i, switch to another tab, so that I can compare the two panes. Is is way easier if I can drag the wanted tab to the other pane and that one get's a additional tab and the current pane gets one tab less (with a minimum of 1 off course).
wrt tabs, i thought of having them move to the other pane, but it isn't as simple as it seems... you can always press ctrl+alt+ins to open the current tab in the other side as a new tab
Note that CTRL+I replaces the current contents in the opposite pane.
If you want to add a tab in the opposite pane, use ALT+CTRL+INS.
(If the focus is on a archive or a subfolder, x2 will open that archive or subfolder in the opposite pane. If the focus is on a file, x2 will open a new tab and load the same folder in the opposite pane).
Once the tab movement across panes is possible, we can expect both copy and move operations.
nikos wrote:wrt tabs, i thought of having them move to the other pane, but it isn't as simple as it seems... you can always press ctrl+alt+ins to open the current tab in the other side as a new tab
I must learn that help file from my head. This takes out some of the steps that I just described. I can live with this.
nikos wrote:wrt tabs, i thought of having them move to the other pane, but it isn't as simple as it seems... you can always press ctrl+alt+ins to open the current tab in the other side as a new tab
This sounds, as if it could probably take some time to implement this via Drag & Drop.
As for users, who are working at a given time with the mouse is always a pain, to switch for a single task to the keyboard and then back to the mouse again I suggest as a intermediate solution this (one or both of them):
Place the equivalent of ctrl-alt-ins into the context menu of the tabs.
Provide an icon for the toolbar for this command.
Speaking about toolbar icon: I strongly request a toolbar-icon as equivalent for alt-x, as closing x2 with the close button (corner up right) does regularly bring up the infamous comm_port-problem when logging out the windows account (even if x2 is not set to replace WE).