3 panel browsing like the finder?

[MKairys]

I find I entirely agree with Darren. Starting with my first tabbed text editor, PFE, almost ten years ago, I have come to love the tabbed approach. I also use MyIE2 and find the tabbed approach to web pages much superior to multiple windows. I find the latest versions of Visual Studio, with a combination of tabs and panes, particularly compelling.

If we could have in X2 two folder panes with multiple tabs in each I think it would be an interface without peer. As Darren says, some of MyIE2's tab management features such as groups would also play quite well in X2.

[wavy c]

I agree that tabbed browsers are great. For me, Net Captor is the best tabbed browser and a far superior system to the single IE window.

But I'm not sure that tabbed windows, when implemented on file managers, are quite as useful. The two pane system, and dragging and dropping between them, is hard to beat. This is especially the case when there is an easy way to navigate up and down paths as in xplorer2. Total Commander has tabbed panes, but keeps them fairly well hidden unless you specifically want to use them.

I wonder if there's a performance hit with tabs? If so, them maybe xplorer2 is better as it is. If not, or not much, and Nikos wants to do it, then, hey, why not?

kind regards

[nikos]

it's not that i want to do it, it's been forced on me by demanding users
tabs are going to make the program a bit fatter, but i hope not by much
there won't be any performance penalty unless you activate them though