TC as a alarm system via Bluetooth against stealing!

[FrankyBkk]

1) There exist now so many widescreen monitors. Is it maybe possible to give the option for a third main column for another drive? This would make the work much easier for people with many hard drives.

2) Is it possible that the user can mark folders to protect them against being seen from bystanders, who don't need to see everything. Many people are getting in difficult situations, if they have an friend on the side sittting, who can read ALL folder names. It is not needed to log the folders, it is enough to protect the user against embarrasing moments.

3) What you think about the idea to use the Bluetooth on Notebooks to protect the privacy on TC. If bluetooth is activated and the user have his mobile phone connected to the bluetoth: If the user leave his computer and the singal to the bluetooth on the notebook is lost, then TC log automaticaly, to stop other people from sniffing around.

4) With the same logic, the bluetooth could be used as a security against thiefs. If the bluetooth singal is lost, the phone gives an alarm. The owner knows that somebody took his Notebbok away.


- In german language:

Hier sind einige Ideen:

1) Da es ja jetzt soviele Widescreenmonitore gibt, wäre es interessant, ob der TC nicht vielleicht optional ein drittes Laufwerksfenster rechts neben den bereits zwei vorhandenen bekommt. Viele Leute haben heutzutage mehrere Laufwerke. Die Reiter (CTRL-W) sind ok, aber die Lweute vergessen halt doch immer wieder, welche Dateinamen es nun sind. Die großen Monitore erleichtern dann den Überblick.

2) Ist es möglich in Zukunft Verzeichnisnamen, welche markiert sind, einfach Leichtgrau auf Weiß anzuzeigen, falls mal ein Bekannter hinter mir steht, und ich gerade meine Pornosammlung aufgelistet habe. Das ist evt. peinlich. Also praktisch verdeckte Verzeichnisse, die zwar benutzt werden können, aber fast nicht lesbar sind von Außenstehenden.

3) Dies ist evt. etwas Unglaubliches. Wäre es möglich, dem TC Bluetoothhsignale empfangen zu lassen (über den normalen Bluetoothanschluß, den ja heutzutage fast jeder Notebook hat), vom Benutzer seinem Telefon, und wenn diese Signale verloren gehen, dann bedeutet das, daß der Benutzer ja wohl von seinem Computer weggeangen ist. Wenn TC dies erkennt, dann loggt es automatisch, damit niemand was sieht oder verändert!

4) Andersrum könnte der TC aber auch dann als eine Art Diebstahlssicherung arbeiten, und bei Kontaktverlust des Bluetoohsignals die Virbation am Telefon einschalten. Damit merkt der Benutzer, daß irgendjemand seinen Notebook mitgenommen hat.

[petermad]

Is it possible that the user can mark folders to protect them against being seen

Maybe the Ignore list (cm_IgnoreConfig) could do what you need?

[karlchen]

Hello, FrankyBkk.

As far as the request expressed in your thread title is concerned, "TC as a alarm system via Bluetooth against stealing!", I tend to state, "Total Commander is an advanced file-manager. Therefore this is request goes far beyond the scope of a file-manager.

Apart from the lurid title which may have been chosen mostly as an eye-catcher, posting 4 pretty unrelated requests in a single post is problematic, because how are we going to discuss each request?

Basically, the same rule that applies to bug reports, "Report one bug per thread", applies to feature requests accordingly, "Post one feature request per thread".


Ad feature request 1) Adding a third panel to the T.C. interface

This has been requested and discussed more than once before.
So far Christian Ghisler, the programme author, has rejected the idea because it has a strong tendency of breaking the two file panel philosophy of source and target and because from his point of view using folder tabs is even more flexible and more efficient than a third file panel.


Ad feature request 2)

From my point of view in particular the reason given makes this feature request very specific. More important, however, you can already get what you want by defining a different foreground color for self-defined file groups and folder groups. Check out "Define colors by file type ..." inside the configuration dialogue boxes.


Ad feature requests 3) and 4)

As stated before, this is way beyond the scope of a file-manager.

Kind regards,
Karl