No joke, but I've got 43 .RES files I repack into the binary with each new release: 40 Dialogs, 2 bitmaps, and an icongroup.
I'm not generally a fatalist (life sucks, then you die
) but no well-meaning compromise is likely to come close to the freedom of personalisation that was possible previously, and even that was a bit of work. I would be quite capable of listing all my changes, enumerating the dialogs, giving happy rationalisations (a few of which are actually logical), but it's difficult to be too vociferous - I understand why and how the policy was changed, and I find it difficult to disagree with.
But I also find the idea of enforced compromise a despicable trend in internet security. Considering how many threads have resulted in perfectly rational well-meaning conclusions, and yet aren't even close to being implemented, or considered - I would be vastly surprised if Nikos even blinked at a few quarrelsome tinkerers whining about things they probably shouldn't have been messing with in the first place (in a perfect world of developer rule).
However, to at least keep up the appearances of participating in the illusion of democratic consensus, I will point out two obvious things: all dialogs have to be adjustable (width, height) and remember their settings. And Verdana 8 is so laughably useless on high resolution monitors that even Microsoft have changed their "suggested modal defaults" to Segoe UI 9. (In this instance, more the size than the font.)
As one last thing, compare the dialogs for Select Columns and Customise Toolbar. Is it too much to ask for a little directional consistency? (Which way is Add and which way is Remove?) I live in a country which has roadsign directions which are probably worse than Uzbekistan's (on a cloudy day), but even I baulk at such irrationality in software.
The ultimate point though, is that as these are all minuscule details we (were) able to modify ourselves, without having to bother anyone by asking, so to have that taken away is actually more trouble than it's worth for the developer - except, it is one more step towards a "working" DRM.
Nikos has always resisted such superficial frivolities as (proper) "skinning" or excessive customising - to a degree I can agree with this swimming against the tide of current software development (never, ever follow trends), but it was only made tolerable by the knowledge that I could change almost anything I wanted as long as I was willing to work at it. This makes that a bit difficult.
Unless, of course, I write my own file manager, which isn't likely to happen, no matter how bored I get.
