Some suggestions
Posted: 27.04.2009, 13:39
Have been using FC for a while and finding it very good. I would though like to suggest the following for future versions:-
1. Extend the Help file to fully cover all aspects of the Settings - for example I could not find anything about the Shell menu.
2. Make the help context sensitive, especially for the Settings, i.e. have a button (or ? button) on each dialogue box of the settings to give help directly for that box.
3. Make it possible to set up Display (e.g. details, icons, thumbnails) and sort method (e.g. by filename, by date) for each folder independently and which is 'sticky' for that folder. This is the possible in Windows (XP) Explorer or My Computer.
So, for example, folders with photos could be set to Thumbnails and filename whilst a document folder could be set to details and date (most recent at the top) according to requirement.
4. Change the terminology of 'directory/sub-directory' to 'folder/sub-folder'. As far as I can remember 'directory' was used for MSDOS and Windows 3.1 but the term became 'folder' from Windows 95 on. Surely any modern program should use the term 'folder'. Many users might not even have heard of the term 'directory' in this context.
Just a few suggestions for consideration to, I think, improve an already very good program.
Derek Shaw
1. Extend the Help file to fully cover all aspects of the Settings - for example I could not find anything about the Shell menu.
2. Make the help context sensitive, especially for the Settings, i.e. have a button (or ? button) on each dialogue box of the settings to give help directly for that box.
3. Make it possible to set up Display (e.g. details, icons, thumbnails) and sort method (e.g. by filename, by date) for each folder independently and which is 'sticky' for that folder. This is the possible in Windows (XP) Explorer or My Computer.
So, for example, folders with photos could be set to Thumbnails and filename whilst a document folder could be set to details and date (most recent at the top) according to requirement.
4. Change the terminology of 'directory/sub-directory' to 'folder/sub-folder'. As far as I can remember 'directory' was used for MSDOS and Windows 3.1 but the term became 'folder' from Windows 95 on. Surely any modern program should use the term 'folder'. Many users might not even have heard of the term 'directory' in this context.
Just a few suggestions for consideration to, I think, improve an already very good program.
Derek Shaw
