Total Commander

TC 8 still has old icons. It must have new beatiful icons files and bars.
And it may be an option as grid form for background.

The icons that was introduced since V7 are not that bad i think and icons are always a matter of taste. (it's possible to change that yourself with other icon files).
I'm not sure if "beautiful bars" are possible(/worth the work), as long TC should support all windows versions with different themes.

Windows 8 does not support the classic theme anymore, maybe this is a possibility to drop support of older windows versions and support only newer versions. (e.g. V8.00 for older versions, V8.50 for Windows 8+). I think there are a lot of other things to be done first.

Just my personal note.

Biozynotiker wrote:Windows 8 does not support the classic theme anymore, maybe this is a possibility to drop support of older windows versions and support only newer versions.

Not for TC. :) I mean, it was only four years ago, when TC 7.0 was not released for Windows 3.11. There's no indication that even Windows 9x support will be dropped from TC 8.0. And you'd jump directly to dropping support for everything older than Windows 8? :) I see, for 8.50, but x.50 is usually about a year from x.0. It's way too soon.

Windows 8 doesn't really bring anything new in regard to themes (when not counting the crazy Metro thing). It's just Windows 7 with themes always on without the option to turn them off. The possibility to have classic Win9x look is gone, but I'm not affraid at all (I actually like it - that look, not the fact it's gone). Someone will surely implement it as custom theme, because no matter how old and dull it may be, it's still simple, inobtrusive and functional, unlike most of the modern circus-like themes. ;)

So nothing changes for TC, it already supports themes (although there is space for some fine-tuning). And if it's not going to take the wrong way of drawing some "oh so super cool" UI itself, like some other apps did (recent ruining of FoxIt Reader comes to mind...), there's no place for "beautiful bars", because how beautiful they will be depends on the selected theme.

(recent ruining of FoxIt Reader comes to mind...)

Yes, the worst "innovation" I have ever seen

sqa_wizard wrote:

(recent ruining of FoxIt Reader comes to mind...)

Yes, the worst "innovation" I have ever seen

Really? Foxit Reader 3.0 was pretty bad - it had severe regressions from 2.1, was slower and scanned books/images looked terrible in 3.0 --- if it could display them at all, since foxit 3.0 tended to completely freeze and crash on large jpg/bitmaps embedded in a pdf.

As for OP. Personally, I'd rather pretty much anything else from the long list of suggestions. Like many(?) I use custom icons for most things. Improve the functionality of the ToolBar/ButtonBar --- align the usage/features (format) of TC's StartMenu, Directory HotList and the ButtonBar --- allow usage of ButtonBar parameters in the CommandLine. Allow cm_(commands) to be launched from the command-line, etc, etc.

Allow cm_(commands) to be launched from the command-line

That already works - or am I mistaken?

@petermad, cool that's helpful, Strange that I missed that. I was sure I had tried it not too too long ago and it failed.

Works for both cm_ and em_commands.