File under cursor on inactive panel
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• Certainly efficient, unambiguous (like in Excel)… and very luxurious !What about “Marching ants” marking ?
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The Windows colour settings affect all programs and all their title bars. Although this is for sure interesting as well for some – great app for classic colour themes is 3DCC – it can also have the opposite effect. If all is a sea of green and red, the important signal character can be lost, that's why I would prefer to see a TC internal mechanism to better visualize the active/inactive panels, independant of Windows settings. I prefer unobtrusive colour settings as well, I don't like to watch at Wizball colour pots 100% of the time.• Here too, since Win 3.1 …
But indeed, that looks too colorful for the fans of black_blue_white_grey made in M$…
- It's a Win setting, easy to change within a few minutes…
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My first reaction on this was : support.. But then I started to wonder.
I consider this, as Clo mentioned, as quite luxurious. And I first have a remark
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You support someone elses suggestion, but you haven't convinced me with any argumentation of the advantages of this.
If I want to know which one on the other side had the cursor, I just hit Tab twice.
And the cursor could have been on a subdir as well, not only a file, btw.
I can understand the fears of Christian with two different cursors at the same time. Two cursors is also a bit of a contradiction I guess.
So this is effectively reduced to a matter of how to visualize this condition, in favour of survey.
To implement this anyway, it sometimes can help to reverse the solution.
As Lefteous stated, the inactive one shouldn't draw more attention. So in the case of Vansumsen's idea,
it's the active cursor which should get the 'marching ants', and the inactive one a fixed cursor.
And if this would be done, I certainly would prefer a TC-native solution, instead of using windoze-things.
I consider this, as Clo mentioned, as quite luxurious. And I first have a remark
2 DrShark
You support someone elses suggestion, but you haven't convinced me with any argumentation of the advantages of this.
If I want to know which one on the other side had the cursor, I just hit Tab twice.
And the cursor could have been on a subdir as well, not only a file, btw.
I can understand the fears of Christian with two different cursors at the same time. Two cursors is also a bit of a contradiction I guess.
So this is effectively reduced to a matter of how to visualize this condition, in favour of survey.
To implement this anyway, it sometimes can help to reverse the solution.
As Lefteous stated, the inactive one shouldn't draw more attention. So in the case of Vansumsen's idea,
it's the active cursor which should get the 'marching ants', and the inactive one a fixed cursor.
And if this would be done, I certainly would prefer a TC-native solution, instead of using windoze-things.
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I would choose both...
Dim inactive panel.
Dim inactive panel cursor.
By "Dim" is meant: reduce the saturation/contrast of the entire inactive panel slightly: font colors and background colors.
I use a "reversed" cursor. A non-reversed cursor (ie. the outline) would suffice for the inactive panel.
Dim inactive panel.
Dim inactive panel cursor.
By "Dim" is meant: reduce the saturation/contrast of the entire inactive panel slightly: font colors and background colors.
I use a "reversed" cursor. A non-reversed cursor (ie. the outline) would suffice for the inactive panel.
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It must be something which cannot be mistaken for a cursor under any conditions, e.g. when the cursor in the active panel is scrolled outside of the visible area (by using the mouse), and only the inactive cursor is visible.
Maybe some kind of icon overlay, like an arrow or triangle?
Maybe some kind of icon overlay, like an arrow or triangle?
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Sounds nice, I'd prefer a triangle.ghisler(Author) wrote:Maybe some kind of icon overlay, like an arrow or triangle?
Either small and designed attractively (like solid and the opposite to the background color)
or big and of less attractive design (like transparent and in a muted color).
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Color is a problem. People use different backgrounds.StatusQuo wrote:Sounds nice, I'd prefer a triangle.ghisler(Author) wrote:Maybe some kind of icon overlay, like an arrow or triangle?
Either small and designed attractively (like solid and the opposite to the background color)
or big and of less attractive design (like transparent and in a muted color).