Additional FTP toolbar(s) as alternative to addional and customizable status bar(s)

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Additional FTP toolbar(s) as alternative to addional and customizable status bar(s)

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It has been suggested several times to implement some customization for Total Commander status bars, including making such status bars multline or even adding new completely separate status bars:
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=22248
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=36556
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=54885

An alternative solution could be a possibility to turn on additional FTP toolbars.

Currently FTP toolbar appers after a certain kind of connection (not only over FTP) is made by Total Commander.
To make such toolbars useful in role of status bars and more, their appearance cause could be extended to on demand, by timer or some event.

Some features of FTP toolbar could be even advantages in comparison to classic status bars - mainly it of course the FTP log list window, which can show more info even as is, but on doubleclick opens it in Lister making the access to almost unlimited amount of saved values history data which also could be updated in live. Another advantage of possibility to open it in Lister window makes it possible to show it conveniently together with other modal Total Commander windows.

To make more additional instances of FTP toolbars to be visible simultaniously, even several in one line, the design of FTP toolbar could be changed a bit.
Currently it is a single line with:
* text "FTP";
* text "Transfer mode";
* combobox for selecting the transfer mode;
* "Disconnect" button to close the connection and FTP toolbar;
* listbox of "FTP log list window" (also mentioned as "FTP history list window").

Here instead of the static text "FTP" a toolbar name could appear, the "Disconnect" button could be renamed to short "x", transfer mode's combobox and log list's listbox widths could be adapted for current FTP toolbar width.

Implementation of multiple FTP toolbars could be also possible without making them all visible simultaniously:
a switch between toolbars clould be done by an adapted for that combobox used now for transfer mode selection, making this combobox more multi functional.

In theory additional FTP toolbars would also allow to work with independent connections to the same FS-Plugin (like WebDAV).
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