A need to distinguish with colors content of folders and path or location

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A need to distinguish with colors content of folders and path or location

#1 Post by Forez » 27.08.2022, 16:50

Under the

Tools > View > Items color > Colors by attributes and timestamp
Tools > View > Items color > Colors by file type

users are able to distinguish files, right? But are they able to see, other than by looking at the Address Bar, in what location they are when navigating in one of the Panels?


Well, there is also the name of the Tab available after right clicking it at

Properties > Tab name

but looking at is the same as reading the path from Address Bar - except of course when a user decides to limit the number of character for Tabs or even renames it, which is [most likely] the way how most users operate. There is also the

Properties > Color

but it is for an individual Tab and thus those colors are not carried over to other folders when a user navigates within that Tab



And so I propose adding some way of making it visually clear to a user just which folder [of special interest] FreeCommander is showing in a given Panel. My proposition are:

A] Adding

Tools > View > Items color > Colors by [main] folders name

and / or

Tools > View > Items color > Colors by path

which would affect how names of files are displayed


B] Moving

Tools > View > Status bar > Color

to a newly created

Tools > View > Status Bar > Colors > Default

and adding something like

Tools > View > Status Bar > Colors > Custom [Ones]

where users could add multiple folder names and / or paths, alike to those two lists located at

Tools > View > Items color >


C] Adding to

Tools > View > File/folder list > Color/Font

something like

Tools > View > File/folder list> Custom

thus also allowing [like proposed in the previous point] for adding of multiple folder names and / or paths



All in all what I would like to be able to do is to have some sort of a not-possible-to-miss visual aid / indicator when e.g. I start in folder

D:\Music

then go within the same Tab to

C:\Music

but later on I open another Tab with

E:\Music

and navigate in it to

D:\Music New

and then switch to the other Panel where I open

D:\Music

and navigate in it to

D:\Music\New

and so on, multiple times during my workflow

[This example is largely exaggerated as my folders do not have such similar names and locations - but nevertheless during my workflow I do make mistakes on the account of e.g. pasting an audio file to a supposedly "proper" sub-folder which in reality is in a wrong main folder]

And what I do not need [i.e. I do not advocate for herein] is an ability to highlight [or mark in whatever way] a file named e.g. "Song" or with extension of "FLAC" located anywhere or in a particular folder

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Re: A need to distinguish with colors content of folders and path or location

#2 Post by Forez » 14.02.2023, 16:28

Well, won't anyone vow support for my idea?

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