future: custom line spacing

[victor50]

Is it possible to have some auto update option? Or a pop-up when an update is available?

[nikos]

xplorer2 prompts you to check for updates every 3 months or so, unless you have disabled the option
but I will add another option so xplorer2 actively checks for updates on a weekly basis

[victor50]

xplorer2 prompts you to check for updates every 3 months or so, unless you have disabled the option
but I will add another option so xplorer2 actively checks for updates on a weekly basis

Thanks!

[Tuxman]

One of the worst things is the taskbar it is completely unusable. I could upgrade to W11 when I found out that you can restore the W10 taskbar:
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatc ... .2_14807a5

My own objection to the taskbar is that it hasn't been unusable since Windows 11, but since Windows 7 at the latest. Windows Vista was the last version with a "taskbar" worthy of the name; after that the thing was briefly called "superbar", but seems to be more of an attempt to recreate the macOS dock (badly, because clearly incoherent).

[Tuxman]

xplorer2 prompts you to check for updates every 3 months or so, unless you have disabled the option

As far as privacy is concerned, opt-in would be the better decision in my opinion.

[victor50]

As far as privacy is concerned, opt-in would be the better decision in my opinion.

I would say that an email is more intrusive than an anonymous prompt.
There happens a lot of sh*t under the guise of privacy.

[victor50]

My own objection to the taskbar is that it hasn't been unusable since Windows 11, but since Windows 7 at the latest. Windows Vista was the last version with a "taskbar" worthy of the name; after that the thing was briefly called "superbar", but seems to be more of an attempt to recreate the macOS dock (badly, because clearly incoherent).

I can't add a picture of my taskbar. It is on the right side, about twenty characters wide, with four toolbars with eighty icon-links to programs, settings and utilities. And of course the classic Open-Shell startmenu.

[otlaolap]

how often does x2 actually poll the free-space to update the graphical icon?"
nowadays you can just drop a custom icon in the xplorer2 installation folder for this (X2ICON.ICO)

Yes, and when you want seven different icons for seven windows showing different views for different purposes, you need to make seven copies of the X2 executable folder and populate each individually (at one time I asked for a command-line option that would allow the icon to be specified). This is truly not worth worrying about. But it is the kind of thing your program leads users to do, and I like it, and for me that is what this computer is for. Smiley face here.

[Gandolf]

... tampering with executables ...

It didn't surprise me it didn't work, but Nikos shouldn't suggest doing something that (he probably knew) wouldn't work.

Anyway, it made me look again at a way of using another file manager to do the one, and only, monthly housekeeping job I still did with x². A little bit of work on some of my scripts, and I now DO NOT NEED x² for anything.

...use kilmatead's resource editing hack...

Kilmatead's Dropbox link to his resource editing hack is dead.

Now, back to work on my antique clock - much more satisfing than all this software rubbish.

[Kilmatead]

Kilmatead's Dropbox link to his resource editing hack is dead.

Oops, so it is. Yeah, that one's on hold for awhile, an ancient project written in an ancient language I barely remember. It needs a little love to rejoin the modern age. Update TBA. I'll disable the link for now.

[Tuxman]

an ancient project written in an ancient language I barely remember.

Oh, is it in Gaelic?

[Kilmatead]

It might as well be!

'Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom' is a 2003 Irish short film. Filmed largely in the Irish language, it tells the tale of a Chinese man who has learned to speak Irish but cannot be understood when he comes to visit largely Anglophonic Ireland.

Bored with his mundane life in China, shopworker Yu Ming (Diyu Daniel Wu) decides to move to a random country and picks Ireland by spinning a globe in a library. An atlas informs him that the official language of Ireland is "Gaelic", thus he begins to learn Irish before his trip.

[Gandolf]

Oops, so it is. Yeah, that one's on hold for awhile...

I saw it was dated 2016, so it didn't surprise me.

an ancient project written in an ancient language I barely remember.

Oh, is it in Gaelic?

More likely hieroglyphics.

[Tuxman]

Writing code in hieroglyphs is not that weird!

[johngalt]

Well, I suppose writing Hieroglyphics in code isn't either!