Multi-Row

[Faltic]

Hi, could you please add the ability to create multiple-rowed tabbing in Explorer++?
Instead of using the arrows on the right side of the screen, just have tabs drop down to a second row.
That would be very useful. Thank you for your time and devotion to this wonderful explorer replacement, it works quite well on Windows 7.

[tzongue]

that's a good idea...

another good option would be to shrink down the tabs with really long names, maybe have a set tab size.

[David Erceg]

Ok, thanks for the suggestions! I'll add both (multi-row tabs and fixed tab width) as user options in the next version.

[Faltic]

Also, would there be a way to make a tabbed toolbar, or integrate Explorer++ into Windows Explorer?

[frmariam]

Also, would there be a way to make a tabbed toolbar, or integrate Explorer++ into Windows Explorer?

You currently can make Explorer++ your default file manager (so when you open a folder from explorer.exe it is opened in Explorer++). Just go to "Options" and check "Replace Explorer for filesystem folders".

Just wish it had a "Force to open new windows as a tab" (like Firefox) because everytime you open a folder from Explorer, Explorer++ will open each one in a new window (another Explorer++ process).

It doesn't work for system folders like My Computer, Control Panel, My Documents, Recycle Bin... You can open them in Explorer++ (if you browse them using Explorer++) but not if launched from Explorer or another app (like RocketDock). Also if you try to open multiple folders at the same time from Explorer they will open with Explorer and not Explorer++.


About toolbars I know of some apps:

QTTabBar (http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/)- free but kind of heavy on the system (.NET...)
WinTabber (http://www.wintabber.com/) - free version is limited to 4 tabs
RadTab (http://www.radad.110mb.com/software/dttools/radtab.html) - free and lite but without many features

[Faltic]

Thanks, frmariam, but I've tried QTTAB before, works great, just not on Windows 7, that's why I was wondering if you could integrate just the tab feature from E++ into Windows Explorer, instead of replacing it, as it does lag sometimes when you have enormous amounts of folders open.

[frmariam]

About the number of tabs well my system also lags if I have a huge amout of windows open... Using E++ instead of the explorer is the only way we have right now. In order to have just the tabs integrated into the explorer I'm guessing it would take a major recoding of E++ or even a whole new app...

I guess that by now MS might have found out that tabs are useful and users like them (seeing how they eventually discovered they lost the cowd of IE in favor Firefox or Opera) and would implement it themselves... Guess I hope for too much from MS... But enough ranting.

QTTabBar is sort of a hack/patch for something MS should have done itself so it'll always be heavier than a native feature. It may be updated later (remember Win7 is not even complete) but I wouldn't expect a performance miracle since the whole thing is C# (and .NET is an awful, bloated, resource hogging language that should be outcast... instead we see it used more and more often and sometimes in some cool apps that really have no other alternative). I really don't believe that the author will recode it in C/C++ since it would surely take a lot of work and he may not be as familiar with these languages as with C#.

[gbrownclerk]

Ok, thanks for the suggestions! I'll add both (multi-row tabs and fixed tab width) as user options in the next version.

Is this still in the works? Thanks!