8.0 nothing new in GUI

[krstatzar]

I haven't noticed any significant changes in TC GUI in version 8.0. I expected it to be more to flexible and icons are so outdated. Would be cool to add better breadcrumbs (now it is only underlined text) and active/inactive pane could be more distinguishable if you could add some kind of overlay and make active pane more brighter or inactive more dimmed or something.
But the rest is fine

[karlchen]

Hello, krstatzar.

Redesigning the GUI was not a goal of creating Total Commander 8.0. The big change has taken place under the hood: this is the first Total Commander which brings a 32-bit version and a genuine 64-bit version.
Cf. Total Commander => Help => Index => What's new in this version?

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 8.0 beta 1:

- This is the first 64-bit version of Total Commander. There will also be a 32-bit version later in this beta test. 64-bit programs can only load 64-bit libraries (dlls), and since all plugins are dlls, the plugins need to be converted to 64-bit too. Therefore it's not recommended to use this version for every day work until a majority of plugins has been ported to 64-bit.
- Enhanced progress dialog handling: Progress is now handled asynchronously, so it will no longer slow down any file operations. Especially the copying, moving and deleting of many small files should be much faster now. Also the number of files and bytes handled and the total files/bytes are shown now.
- Lister: Show jpg, gif and png images in Lister without plugins
- Search function: In field "Search in", a list file can be specified like this: @c:\path\searchfile.txt. The file must contain one file/dir name per line, absolute or relative to the location of the list file
- Multi-rename tool enhancements: Allow backslashes in name field, directly create sub-folders for moving files
- Draw new style (Windows Vista/7) expand/collapse icons in tree
- Copy directly from FTP or virtual folders (e.g. the desktop) to file system plugins
- "Skip all" in "copy as admin" function
- Use new Explorer method on Windows 7 to show file time stamps (not changing between summer and winter), can be changed via wincmd.ini (NewTimeZoneMethod)
- See history.txt for all additions and fixes

Kind regards,
Karl

[Samuel]

and active/inactive pane could be more distinguishable if you could add some kind of overlay and make active pane more brighter or inactive more dimmed or something.

Try this:

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ActiveTitle=12476675
ActiveTitleText=16777215
InactiveTitle=13864005
InactiveTitleText=16777215

[ehab]

i am happy with the interface. i don't like candy stuff and don't want another version forces me to adapt to new style unless it is significant so i wish TC v.20 will remain the same GUI.

[dindog]

and active/inactive pane could be more distinguishable if you could add some kind of overlay and make active pane more brighter or inactive more dimmed or something.

Try this:

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ActiveTitle=12476675
ActiveTitleText=16777215
InactiveTitle=13864005
InactiveTitleText=16777215

i prefer something more prominant if available

title font color...still got to look up the title

[krstatzar]

Title color is not what i had in mind the whole file pane should somehow indicate active/inactive state plus I don't want some heavy eyecandy stuff but feature like placing the buttonbar at the bottom, command line or search at the top such things would be great.
I don't burn that much CD/DVDs but would be nice to have that built in feature though.

[Samuel]

Try this:

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ActiveTitle=12476675
ActiveTitleText=16777215
InactiveTitle=13864005
InactiveTitleText=16777215

i prefer something more prominant if available

You may use different Color numbers. > see help for details.