Total Commander

Yes, color scheme by folder or tab would be awesome.

WhatI could imagine are icons in in the tab headers. There are several ways to use icons there:

- Locked tabs are currently shown with an asterisk. A locked icon would be better
- Show the (special) icons of directories
- Custom icons
- Tagging by colors (realized by using on the fly created icons)

Just some ideas

Lefteous wrote:WhatI could imagine are icons in in the tab headers.
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- Tagging by colors (realized by using on the fly created icons)

Just some ideas

wELL, (I hate Sifht-Lock key)... Icons on tab headers are a good solution, but if you need to recognize a tab from a blow of eye, it's better if you've coloured the tab background.

Very often I begin to edit sources from my USB pendrive, because I confuse it with the same folders of the hard disk.
It's necessary to read very carefully the complete path, or watch the list of drives to know it.

However, I believe that the problem is in opening a file of "folder descript.ion", that can contain all these informations, if it is desired.

2Jqn

Icons on tab headers are a good solution, but if you need to recognize a tab from a blow of eye, it's better if you've coloured the tab background.

Are you talking about the tab header background or the file panel belonging to the tab?

I'm talking allways about the panel background...
But tab background is a very good idea...although the list of tabs with different colors in same panel can seem a flag...

2Jqn

I'm talking allways abot the panel background...

I really don't see the use of colored panel backgrounds as you have to switch through the tabs before you see which is the right one.
The tab header background or an icon in the tab panel is always visible and could improve recognition of the required tab.

Lefteous wrote: I really don't see the use of colored panel backgrounds as you have to switch through the tabs before you see which is the right one.
The tab header background or an icon in the tab panel is always visible and could improve recognition of the required tab.

Please read my post on previous page. It is not about "to find right panel". Let's say I have test FTP server and "Production" FTP server. Both with the same directory structure and possible both open at the same time. If I am going to change file and I see green background, I know it is test, don't worry, even if I'll delete something by accident.
As I wrote for telnet it is great and for TC it would be great too. Sure in telnet there is title bar with the name of server (in TC it is Tab or server name above tab), but when you open five of them and start switching among them, you can easily get lost and run something on wrong server

Even for windows...Explorer by default hides files from c:\windows and c:\program files. Not that I like that - I am not using it at all , but someone may like to color background of TC panel just to remind him "be careful here".

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2ado

Thanks, that's exactly it.

Reddish background might mean "danger" or "hot" or "Something is missing"...

Suppose one could link the panel background color (or a tab's background color) to whether files that match a user filter are present in or missing from the folder.

... or whether a file with today's date is present, or...

Just thinking aloud.