Total Commander

Title says it all. It'd be darn great if we could color code tabs and keep them at that color.

I work in game design and we have lots of projects and I always sorta forget what texture folder was for which project and what 'scene' in the tab actually means.

With color coded tabs, I could assign each project a color and would know immediately what I'm dealing with. That'd be oh so neat.

Another Suggestion: Why not put some presets into the CTRL + D Menu? Like, Control Panel, My Computer, Trash, etc., without me having to search for scripts that invoke those things all the time?

I'd basically set Total Commander so that it pops up every time I press a key on my keyboard and I want it to be my 'I have my computer in control' utility. Right now, it's still a little wonky and I've been using it for about a year now.

thomasmahler wrote:Title says it all. It'd be darn great if we could color code tabs and keep them at that color.

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I do not agree to put many colors into TC. It can looks like a parrot.

eugensyl wrote:

thomasmahler wrote:Title says it all. It'd be darn great if we could color code tabs and keep them at that color.

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I do not agree to put many colors into TC. It can looks like a parrot.

Don't you like parrots?

2thomasmahler

Why not put some presets into the CTRL + D Menu? Like, Control Panel, My Computer, Trash, etc.,

I cannot help you with the Ctrl+D menu, but if you download my Extended menus http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/TcMenu_en_7.html then you'll have all those standard folders in the Main menu.

m^2 wrote:

eugensyl wrote:

thomasmahler wrote:Title says it all. It'd be darn great if we could color code tabs and keep them at that color.

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I do not agree to put many colors into TC. It can looks like a parrot.

Don't you like parrots?

I like. I have twice.

But they have one color each.

To many colors can distribute the attention.

I like this idea.
I often use color tabs in Excel - of course all the sheets are named but it's much easier to switch to eg. the most important one which is red.

Colored tabs have been discussed many times in this forum, make a search with "tabs AND color"
Workarounds: HighlightCurrentTab with Power Pro (author Vochomurka) or use of certain themes
CEUM

eugensyl wrote: I like. I have twice.

But they have one color each.

To many colors can distribute the attention.

For you!
I think it was your own choice to buy one colored parrots.
Give us the choice/option, too. THX!

Yes, I would like to have colored tabs, too.

I would use it for each different sort of tabs:
- Locked
- Locked and renamed
- Locked, but directory changes allowed
- A group of saved and loaded tabs

Just because of the "new tabs", which always receive a standard color.

I would like to have colored frames drawn in the tabs instead of full painted backgrounds.

The font color used to be customizeable, too.
-> (define colors according to filelist)

When I want to draw one tab in a special color, iI would like to use the contextmenu on tab to invoke the "Color selection dialog"

When I have 2 Tabs with the same color, I would like to "save this color as group" via contextmenu.

Kind regards

I'd say coloring could be definitely very useful.

The question is why you want that? Most probably as originally thomasmahler suggested - because he is working on different projects and he simply want to know easily without checking server/drive/directory which project is in panel now. For example "yellow is pacman" and "red is Halo".

But this will also mean, that just by navigating to different project color will simply change automatically.

So what I am trying to suggest to Christian is to give us option to define colors per directory.
I.e.:
c:\projects\pacman - yellow
c:\projects\halo - red
ftp:abc.com/test - green
with option to specify if color should be inherited to subdirectories or no


Colored can be tab background, or colored frame or even colored background of the panel itself, or background of status line below panel (I want to see that color even when no tab is open). I'd love to have possibility to choose.

I am using this kind of color coding to identify the servers for a telnet sessions. When I see the green background, I know, that it is a development server and I can do almost freely anything. The yellow background means "this is the test server" used by someone else.... I am accessing the same servers via TC and FTP. Just by using the same coloring schema it would prevent me to delete files from wrong server or copy files to wrong server. Simply the block of color is way easier to identify that server name for FTP (than is sometimes enyabcthha3b.abc.cde.ef.com and another enyabcthha3p.abc.cde.ef.com)
or long directories like:
c:\project\old\working\pacman\game\pictures\level1\..
vs
c:\project\new\working\pacman\game\pictures\level1\..

ado

Today I found that I also have use for it. I have some tabs alway opened, some for the things I'm currently working on and some - to use freely when needed. Different colors would speed me up, so..
Support++.

CEUM wrote:Workarounds: HighlightCurrentTab with Power Pro (author Vochomurka)

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CEUM wrote:Colored tabs have been discussed many times in this forum, make a search with "tabs AND color"
Workarounds: HighlightCurrentTab with Power Pro (author Vochomurka) or use of certain themes
CEUM

yeah, it is good start, but it just highlight tab(s). We need different colors and if possible dynamic (based on directory).
Looks like I finally see strong reason to learn AHK or PowerScript and I'll have to do it by myself

ado

colored frame or even colored background of the panel

it is already possible to change the color of the font for all files in a directory:
define colors by filetype--> define --> search for: *.* --> plugins: tc path = c:\any\ --> save --> ok.
This option for the background color(s) would be very nice!
CEUM

I was talking about the possibility, to take the userdefined "foldercolor" from filelist -naturally- for the font color of the according tab.

ados idea to use a unified colorsystem for tabcolor and colored background of the panel itself is much more sophisticated.

Thanks