Total Commander

The exclamation mark overlay for hidden/system files is nice. But it doesn't make ANY sense to show it on junctions and symlinks, even more because it looks HORRIBLE - see e.g. this picture. The visual information that the element is a symlink/junction is much more important than that it's hidden and/or system. So please remove it from these elements.

Yes, I'm talking about the configuration where the old file list icons are used (since the link icon is shown only in this case).

A hoping Dalai

Support +1

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Beta 12
http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/lwdu-8-8302.png

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I can't say what is more important - that dir is a reparse point or that it is system... So perhaps one may want one behaviour while another one may want another behaviour...

Perhaps it would look better with different overlay...
http://polariton.ad-l.ink/8glGYZ7zf/image.png

2MVV
That might be even better because there will certainly be other icons where the exclamation mark overlay looks crappy as well, e.g. the Recycle bin (not as bad as the one on the junctions).

Regards
Dalai

You can't ask for hiding "!" overlay for every item that looks weird with this overlay...

Well, that's true. For me personally I have made a workaround by extracting the icons from TC 8.52a and compiling them into a RES file that can be used with IconLib setting. This way TC is forced to show the old icons instead of the new overlay. But apart from I discovered this workaround only after opening this topic, I was hoping for a more generic and workable solution.

And, as I said, your suggestion may be a better approach. I admit I hadn't thought of moving the overlay to a corner instead of just removing it.

Regards
Dalai

You can try my library, I've extracted icons from TC9 and integrated into empty DLL, and then played with overlays.

Hmm, I could even show the ! icon to the left or right of the main icon when there is enough space - it isn't drawn as an overlay but as a separate icon. But this may cause problems with ! overlay icons in icon library...

2ghisler(Author)
Hm, I'm not sure how this could cause problems with overlays in icon libraries. Could you elaborate some more on this?

2MVV
Your overlay gets a bit lost when disabling dimmed hidden/system files, although that's not your fault at all - it's just how it looks to me.

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Unfortunately I don't have any idea how to make the overlay any better, where to place it and so on; I'm not a designer at all.

Regards
Dalai

Just a cosmetic issue. TCMD's default icon for junction combined with "!" overlay doesn't show anything recognizable, just a mess of pixels.
Image: http://jpeg.cz/images/2016/11/27/hWa8O.png
My suggestion - change the default icon for junction to something like this, at least when overlays have to be shown:
Image: http://jpeg.cz/images/2016/11/27/lDwaK.png