Total Commander

A small thing I already stated in german forum (with screenshot, without reaction yet):
with german language setting the context menu in Synchronize Dirs got changed and have an arrow in front of their titles now. The items (translated here) were changed to - This way you can't use the first letter of the command as hotkey anymore ("<" and "-" are the two new "hotkeys", which is very unintuitive).
- This "feature" is different in english language, here these items are unchanged (no arrows).

User workaround: This can be changed in the *.LNG file (WCMD_DEU.LNG) by the user, but this is overwritten every time when installing a new TC version.

Suggestion to fit all (not disturbing hotkey usage and optically showing direction) would be to put these arrows at the end of the commands like this: This way the feature could be useful and added to the other standard LNG-files, too, without side-effects.

2StatusQuo

Hello !

…but this is overwritten every time when installing a new TC version. …

• Two tricks :

1. Customize the name of your German *.LNG and *.MNU in the style :

WCMD_STATUS-QUO_DEU.LNG ¦ WCMD_STATUS-QUO_DEU.MNU
and use them for you usual works.

- Please notice that the menu must be renamed, even whether you didn't change anything in it…

• Additionally, you may rename the localized Totalcmd.inc in the same painting, knowing that the name is else, in example :
wcmd_status-quo_deu.inc
to get the descriptions in German when using the commands window…

• You could always make a backup of the original German LNG because :

2. Update the TC by hand opening the archive, so you can control exactly that is overwritten or not
- In the case, copy the new German LNG (overwrite the old one, no matter since you have a backup).
- Doing so, then you can compare the two original German LNG,
and spot the new¦changed strings in order to update your own customized file.

• I use that way in French, and it's satisfactory…

 VG
Claude
Clo

Hi Clo! Thanks for the tips, but...

Clo wrote:WCMD_STATUS-QUO_DEU.LNG ¦ WCMD_STATUS-QUO_DEU.MNU

Well, I have used this some time ago - until I realized how many new features i missed, because they didn't appear in my menus.

Update the TC by hand opening the archive, so you can control exactly that is overwritten or not

Yes, that's my standard way of "installing", too. Fast, simple and easy undoable.

- Doing so, then you can compare the two original German LNG,
and spot the new¦changed strings in order to update your own customized file.

OK, possible - but I would have to
- remember doing it
- get some time and concentration
- do it
- spread the changed files to all PCs (standard downloaded archive is not enough then anymore)

If all else fails, I would prefer to write a tool to do all my own changes in the original files automatically.
This would after all have to be spread only once and could be used with all updates (hopefully)...
(I hate doing things manually, that also my PC can do for me equally good.)

Still hoping for the easiest way: to fix the standard layout...