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Switching to thumbnail view hides the columns headers, making it less convenient to sort the view.

Please leave the column headers visible (and enabled) when showing thumbnails.

nice idea

JohnFredC wrote:Switching to thumbnail view hides the columns headers, making it less convenient to sort the view.

Please leave the column headers visible (and enabled) when showing thumbnails.

Maybe nice idea, but very unsystematic. The behavior of SS is the same as in the Explorer. Only detail view has the columns headers. So not only thumbnail view hides the columns headers, but every other view than detail view hides them as well.
For sorting of panel content you can use:

1. keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F6)
2. left, right menu
3. or you can add to toolbar buttons "Sort by Name", "Sort by Extension", "Sort by Size", "Sort by Date", which give you even feedback what sorting method is chosen

keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+F6)

left, right menu

or you can add to toolbar buttons "Sort by Name", "Sort by Extension", "Sort by Size", "Sort by Date", which give you even feedback what sorting method is chosen

Yes, but are those all the columns we'll ever have in Salamander? I hope not because if they are, I'll eventually have to switch to another filer.

The Explorer paradigm isn't the only one that works, or we wouldn't have Salamander.

Think "outside the box"!

May I direct you to this image:

http://www.winsupersite.com/images/show ... 70_041.jpg

... showing a Vista file list window in tile view. The column header band is plainly visible. Even MS thinks this is a good idea!

JohnFredC wrote:[...]Even MS thinks this is a good idea!

That's a very good reason

That's a very good reason

Not in my book, but jis seemed to think so.

JohnFredC wrote:

That's a very good reason

Not in my book, but jis seemed to think so.

No, please don't call me "Windows XP Explorer Paradigm Forever" Advocate

I must apologize to you, because I misunderstand your very short first post, as a feature request from someone who didn't know well difference and limitations between various views in SS . So I switch myself to "RTFM dude" mode, I am sorry for this.

In the ALTAP Roadmap there is this item: "Custom panel columns (parsers for EXIF, MP3 bitrate, Access Time, etc.)". So we will have much more columns in SS then we have now, so your request is clever and relevant in this context.

I think that my third hint helps a little just now in actual beta 11 that still has a limited number of columns.

2jis

Oh man, no apology necessary! All in good fun here, after all.

Temporary solution first sort in detailed view then switch to thumbnails mode.
But ofcourse having the sorting options (column headers) in thumbnail mode is a smart idea.

Guys we are SS fanboys aren't we? Don't give us strange ideas of switching to windows explorer John MS makes lousy choices lol

omega wrote:Temporary solution first sort in detailed view then switch to thumbnails mode.
But ofcourse having the sorting options (column headers) in thumbnail mode is a smart idea.

I publish better solution right here in my previous post. If you add to your toolbar buttons "Sort by Name", "Sort by Extension", "Sort by Size", "Sort by Date", they give you:
1) possibility to sort by clicking on them
2) graphic feedback (pressed button effect) what sorting method is chosen in active panel

omega wrote:Guys we are SS fanboys aren't we? Don't give us strange ideas of switching to windows explorer John MS makes lousy choices lol

I think that John only point for us that even MS will re-engineering Explorer in Windows Vista in similar way as he described... Nobody here was talking about switching to windows explorer

It's a joke JIS. Don't take it serious you misunderstood the joke.
John is praising the new windows get it? Well maybe it's not that funny.

John
".. showing a Vista file list window in tile view. The column header band is plainly visible. Even MS thinks this is a good idea!"

KNUT
"That's a very good reason"