Feature Request

[TheByteSmasher]

Hey Christian,
Given all that you do for us I know we shouldn't ask for more but... do you think you'll ever redesign TC with a Holo theme? I love the app, have since winmo 6, but I think the Holo look is so slick and with TC's functionality it would be the absolute best file manager available for android. What do you think?
Thanks

[ghisler(Author)]

How is this done? Wouldn't it break backwards compatibility?

[TheByteSmasher]

It's just a look really. Colors, shape, font and simplicity. Some good examples of Holo are: apps called: quotes, battery widget? Reborn!, currents, business calendar, Google calendar etc.. this looks like a good starting pointhttp://www.extremetech.com/mobile/113971-5-ways-the-new-android-design-guidelines-will-make-apps-better
I don't make apps, so I'm not really sure how but I think it's kind of built in somehow.

[ghisler(Author)]

According to this link Holo is the theme of Android ICS. TC doesn't specify any themes in the dialog resources, so shouldn't Holo be set automatically on ICS or newer?

[TheByteSmasher]

No. It doesn't become Holo on your N7 does it? Tell you what, I'll do the legwork since I requested it, then I'll send you what I find and you tell me if it's possible. it might be as simple as a couple of lines of code. I'll get back to you, probably today.

[TheByteSmasher]

I found this, I don't really understand it all but maybe you do?
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/130719/how-do-you-build-your-app-with-holo-theme
And
https://gist.github.com/1582755

Maybe this'll help your understanding and allow you to decide if it's something you want to do. Take care

[TheByteSmasher]

Maybe it is fairly Holo already... Maybe I'm just an idiot.

[TheByteSmasher]

So, I guess the App is pretty much Holo already. The Home screen Icons threw me off, Sorry.

[ghisler(Author)]

I see - Well, I'm not a designer, just a developer. TC for Android is a hobby for me, I don't earn a single cent with it. It wouldn't be appropriate to pay many 1000s of dollars for a good designer for a free app. Therefore I re-used the icons from the desktop version.

[TheByteSmasher]

Woah, don't get me wrong, please. I love the app and know it'd only a hobby. I was just saying that my initial assessment was wrong. I'm sorry to have caused confusion. Probably you should just delete this thread and send an army of Swiss women to my house to spank me severely!

[hadi_rena]

Since this thread title is feature request... I want to ask for another feature:

1. Default folder for each panel (can be home or specific folder)
2. Save settings to file. Titanium Backup have backup setting capability but not everyone have a rooted device

Thank You

[PuzoM]

I see - Well, I'm not a designer, just a developer. TC for Android is a hobby for me, I don't earn a single cent with it. It wouldn't be appropriate to pay many 1000s of dollars for a good designer for a free app. Therefore I re-used the icons from the desktop version.

Just an idea, have you ever considered open-source icons?
Like http://davidcrow.ca/article/634/open-source-icons

Cheers!

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately using other people's icons is a legal minefield. There are thousands of icons in these libraries, and there is no guarantee that they are really all free to use and not copied from commerical icon libraries.

[lastbyte]

Hi PuzoM
Please see my message posted at Sa Jan 19, 2013 11:11 am
Total Commander Pocket -> Problem mit/with Bluetooth
Sorry, for my post here, but your PM is off, and you're here active recently.

[ouzoWTF]

I would really like to see a holo theme too, and I would also pay for it (since I bought the desktop version too), because I like the possibilities of TC.

Here are some examples of holo styled file managers on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer&feature=related_apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uncopt.android.filebrowser.free&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jyvee.fylee&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.clean&feature=search_result

Backwards compatibility can be achieved with ActionBarSherlock (http://actionbarsherlock.com/) and HoloEverywhere (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.holoeverywhere.demo).

The most of the icons (cut, copy, paste, share, ...) should be usable directly from Android itself, I think.
Or you can use the official source for the icons from here: http://developer.android.com/design/downloads/index.html