Double Commander

Directory Size:
Instead of in the size column for directories saying "<DIR>", have it actually say the size of the directory! I know you can do it in Free Commander, but after a certain version you could no longer make it the standard setting (or the setting to make it permanent is hidden!).

Directory Columns:
The grid should extend to the bottom of the window instead of to the bottom of the directory (when the directory only has three items)! It looks ugly as shit when it stops at the bottom of the directory! I also like how Free Commander allows you to go the parent directory by double clicking any un-used part of the grid. I.e. you have space down the row not taken up by a field, you can go up a directory!

I see there is an option to show directory size ("show occupied space"), but I'd like to see it have two more features. One - permanent setting, so when you change directories it also shows size; two - select what file extension, I'm used to seeing file sizes in Kb (or KiB if you like).

What do you mean?

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He means, for example, if there are only 5 files to display, then there are only 5 coresponding grid row while the panel can hold up to 10 grid row. "deztox" think this is ugly.
As I know, lazarus's grid control works like this, to achieve deztox's needs, you have to add extra blank grid row to mimic that. That would be absolutely not cool.

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All I want is to give birth to a child with ZengYiKe...

But double click the blank area of the panel to go back to parent directory is really a good idea(and requires just a little code).

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All I want is to give birth to a child with ZengYiKe...

Yes it is not good idea.

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Windows XP SP3
Linux Mint Xfce Edition

I'm not a programmer, I don't know how it's done, I just know what I like! From what I read, you haven't said if you think it's appealing or not, just that from a development stand-point that it's not cool. If you want to appease both sides, make it an option to mimic empty rows and let me worry about it (probably say something like it might slow DC down for having to do more work).

I know gfdice that you disapprove of my rows idea, how about the columns portion? Wouldn't that just be making the column lengths stick to what was set? Could incorporate my "parent directory" accessiblity there too.

Hi deztox. Although I'm a programmer, I'm just a user of double commander here. I'm not a developer of double commander. You seems to having some experience of using FreeCommander, so somehow you want dc works and looks like it.
About your row idea, I don't think the current look of the file panel of dc is ugly, and from the standpoint of programming, you suggestion might need some code which most programmers would not like to write(kinda not elegant I guess). It's just a problem of habit, you will feel better if you get used to it.
To display the size of a directory, it seems that dc calculates all the files under that directory and then does a sum, this operation needs quite a while to finish if that directory has too many files and too many child levels(sub-directory). So they seperate that operation to an individual user command. I guess FreeCommander uses some other way to calculate the size of directorys, or it just calculate the files of the first child level(You can try this out in FreeCommander).

There is another commander written in java(swing) which is also open-sourced, you can try that one(sorry I can't remember it's name). I don't use it because it's slow to startup. But in recent days, the snapshots of double commander takes much longer time to startup, so the startup advantage of dc no longer exists,
PS: That commander is written in java(swing), you might need some time to fall in love with that UI look and feel.

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All I want is to give birth to a child with ZengYiKe...

Free Commander was my first love, so I want my second love to be better (in many ways it is). I really liked some stuff she did and would like DC to do also. DC can only go up and I'd like to see her rise to the top fast, atleast the top for me (which is the suggestions I had).

I tend to avoid java apps as they seems bloody slow to me. The one you were looking for was muCommander? I've tried that one, wasn't impressed.

From a developers stand-point, is making the column size easy? Right now I have "Size" as my last column with a size of 50, but since it's the last one it extends all the way to the end of the panel. I'd like if the last column wouldn't do that. With the extra space I was thinking of allowing users to go up a directory in that space.