Icons for Control Panel items

[roentgen]

TC currently displays no icons for items in Control Panel and Network Neighborhood (Add Network Place, etc).

I would really like to see such implementation in TC as for me this makes Control Panel from within TC unusable.

[StickyNomad]

Hm, on my System (XPSP2 and Win2K) the Control panel icons are displayed.

Do you have activated 'Show All associated and EXE/LNK' on your configuration->icons page?

[roentgen]

It seems that I also need to enable 'Icons on net', which I do not consider safe (and also means slower browsing).

These should be separate options.

[StickyNomad]

Ah, OK. I have activated Icons on net and didn't check if its necessary. You're right, if this is deactivated, only the 'folder' items of control panel are shown with icons (fonts, printers), but all other items have no icon.

I agree that -if possible- 'icons on net' should affect only 'real' network items, and not to items on the local machine.

Bu you never know how M$ did implement their crap. Maybe control panel is a kind of 'pseudo-network-thingy'...

[petermad]

you never know how M$ did implement their crap

User friendly logic has never been M$'s strong side

[roentgen]

Sorry to interrupt the anti-M$ manifestations, but I really think that the problem is in TC, concerning strictly this matter.

Maybe \\Control Panel is interpreted as a network path (just a thought).

[StickyNomad]

Maybe \\Control Panel is interpreted as a network path (just a thought).

Hm, this could indeed be right. The '\\' strengthens this assumption.

[Flint]

Bump. Still not fixed in 7.0rc1.

Maybe, this thread should be moved to "TC7 Beta bug reports"?

[ghisler(Author)]

The "icons on net" option actually affects all virtual folders, because it's not possible to determine whether a virtual folder is local or on a network.