It is always preferred to use latest FPC release to build Double Commander.Ĭurrent development version requires at least FPC 3.2.0.Įach Double Commander release is usually built with latest stable version of Lazarus.Ĭurrent development version requires Lazarus 2.0.12 or later. From command line (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS)ĭouble Commander is developed with Free Pascal and Lazarus.The row height is in the file list twice bigger than it should be. This causes following problems with usability:ġ. Essentially less files are displayed at once. User feels uncomfortable because a lot of place is wasted instead of displaying more information (more files).Ģ. The file list is hard to use because users are forced now to scroll file list twice more often. The main reason why Double Commander exists is to provide better usability than Total Commander, Windows Explorer, Nemo, Thunar, Dolphin and other file managers. But this bug makes usability essentially worse. In the versions 0.6 and 0.7 file list was displayed correct. May be incorrect icon representation causes this problem? In 0.8.1 the font size is the same as it was in the version 0.7, only icon size is in 0.8.1 much bigger than in 0.7. Just open any directory containing 10-20 files, e.g. Linux Mint 17.3, Cinnamon, QT version of Double Commander open directory where Double Commander is installed. Linux Mint 17.3, Cinnamon, GTK2 version of Double CommanderĬool. I use DC since 2014 and have never looked at these settings. Where as in the version 0.7 there is really 16x16, 22x22, 32x32. But 20x20 in the version 0.8.1 is fine to me. So we can change severity to a normal or minor.īut I still find that it is bad that the default size is so huge. Even Windows Explorer is in this respect better than DC, because it uses small icons like DC 0.7. I don't understand the purpose of such huge icons. Who cares about icons? Does anybody look at them at all? if yes, they use normally Windows Explorer, not DC. The easiest way to distinguish file types is to use different colours, like red for. Colors help much more than icons to distinguish file types.Įvery tool that has focus on user's productivity uses white space very efficiently. Look at IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, Eclipse, Atom, Sublime: All of them use icons intensively. But icons' height is the same as text height. The lists of file names are very condensed in all these IDEs. They want that user gets as much information as possible at _one_ glance. Where as DC now _hides_ 50% of information because of huge icon size. Look at the Configuration -> Options dialog in DC: The icons have same size as texts. Why don't you use 32x32 also there? I think you understand this would be bad. Then why do you use 32x32 or 40x40 in the file list? Be consistent, use same rules across the whole application. Currently it looks like absolutely different developers with absolutely different design concepts worked on the file list and on options dialog. Use small icons by default in the whole application. DC is in many aspects better than Windows Explorer, Thunar, Dolphin etc. But even Windows Explorer uses small icons in the directory tree. Why do you make DC worse than all these File Managers? User gets much more information at _one_ glance. What was the motivation behind changing the default size to such a huge size? It would be normal, if such huge size was used in the "Thumbnails View" mode. But it destroys the layout in the "Columns View" mode. If somebody really needs huge icons, add a toolbar button for them, so that they can see huge icons per single mouse click. But let the most users be productive in their work and keep the small icon size by default. I suggest you to improve user experience in DC and to use smaller icon size by default.One area of Microsoft Windows that really hasn’t changed that much over the years is file management.
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