The easiest way to distinguish file types is to use different colours, like red for. Colors help much more than icons to distinguish file types.Įvery tool that has focus on user's productivity uses white space very efficiently. Look at IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, Eclipse, Atom, Sublime: All of them use icons intensively. But icons' height is the same as text height. The lists of file names are very condensed in all these IDEs. They want that user gets as much information as possible at _one_ glance. Where as DC now _hides_ 50% of information because of huge icon size. Look at the Configuration -> Options dialog in DC: The icons have same size as texts. Why don't you use 32x32 also there? I think you understand this would be bad. Then why do you use 32x32 or 40x40 in the file list? Be consistent, use same rules across the whole application. Currently it looks like absolutely different developers with absolutely different design concepts worked on the file list and on options dialog. Use small icons by default in the whole application. DC is in many aspects better than Windows Explorer, Thunar, Dolphin etc. But even Windows Explorer uses small icons in the directory tree. Why do you make DC worse than all these File Managers? User gets much more information at _one_ glance. What was the motivation behind changing the default size to such a huge size? It would be normal, if such huge size was used in the "Thumbnails View" mode. But it destroys the layout in the "Columns View" mode. If somebody really needs huge icons, add a toolbar button for them, so that they can see huge icons per single mouse click. But let the most users be productive in their work and keep the small icon size by default. I suggest you to improve user experience in DC and to use smaller icon size by default.One area of Microsoft Windows that really hasn’t changed that much over the years is file management.
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