

The cathedral OS with a consistent UI look & feel (including navigation shortcuts and behaviour),
#XYPLORER SLOW REPORT META WINDOWS#
Microsoft as incapable of ever building something as great as windows explorer, sadly. Since the end of windows 7/arrival of windows 8, I regard

My pet enthusiasm on explorer is, that for many years this as been available as a third-party extension, which highlights what a good design windows explorer has. My pet peeve in windows explorer, is that file byte size isn't offered as one of the configurable columns. If I was a linux distro, my attack vector would be an awesome 'file explorer/previewer'. Windows Explorer, in my mind, scores high on this, mostly based on efforts back before 2005 hopefully they won't squander it all. perfectly registered file-viewers, so the details/preview pane can always easily preview any file. "perfect" 'application-versus-documents-assocatation', so the system knows which applications MAY support a given filetype, and the user dynamically can enable/disable a file association (I don't want the user to delete any file association, only to DISABLE it). relevant context-menus for all file-types. Where the following is solved to perfection: Which means, in a random application, I can trigger the "load file" or "save as" explorer-dialog, and use the explorer context menu do do git commands or zip/unzip stuff, in a random application that knows nothing about git or zip.Ĭompromise: I know the shell integration is buggy, and thus a nightmare for developers - the developer behind tortoise-git is flooded with bug reports stemming from conflicts with other buggily-implemented explorer-extensions that are not his fault.Īlso, in a world with 8billion people, it is probably a nightmare to let "everyone" add menu items to the context menu - envision 500 sub-menu items.īoth on linux and windows, I dream of an "explorer nirvana", I love that with the explorer tortoise-git integration, I get git menus directly in explorer. In particular, I love the shell integration in Explorer. However, ironically, windows file explorer is one of those parts of ms-windows I normally appreciate, as being "more good than bad". I believe it's always possible to do better, and I will try DO out.
