Please add thumbnails to detail view as a new display mode!

[zer0nix]

Thumbnails can be a quick way to check if different files with the same file size are true duplicates. I can report that sadly, even having apps generate crc or md5 isn't a perfect solution, much less checking for file size.

Also, adding a button to discard and reload thumbnails may possibly prevent ram use from getting too high, since everything has a tendency to bug out after a few hours on computers with low ram (right click menu stops loading, have to hard reset by ending the program from the task manager)

Thanks!

[void]

Everything 1.5 has an option to show thumbnails in detail view.

To enable thumbnails in detail view:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything 1.5 search box:
  /icon_use_thumbnails=1
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, icon_use_thumbnails=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

icon_use_thumbnails



To set the icon size:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything 1.5 search box:
  /icon_size=32
  where 32 is the icon size in logical pixels.
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, icon_size=32 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
• Close your Everything search window.
• Reopen your Everything search window.

icon_size



Press F5 to clear your thumbnail cache.



Please try reducing the icon load size:

• Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
  /thumbnail_load_size=128
• Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
• If successful, thumbnail_load_size=128 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

The default is: 256

[siomosp]

Hello!
Thank you for adding this option!
It is possible to add a 5th option at view menu, details + thumbs ?

[void]

I will consider a details with thumbnails mode from the View menu.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I will also look into support for toggling details + thumbnails from a bookmark in the next alpha update.

[meteorquake]

There's probably a good interest in such a feature. Many times you look at thumbs you do so sequentially so it's just as good as having them vertically (1-D, with details, scrolling) as having them as a grid (2-D).
I would think myself it would be something like a thumb/icon and then beside it the basic details.
I suspect there's a great potential here for allowing customising the display of details in an extension-aware way, and so having saved custom Views.
So for example if someone had (where \c means new columns, \n being new line within a column):

jpg,bmp,png,gif:<Thumbnail>\c<Dimensions> * <Compression> * <Date Modified>\n<Name> * <Path>\c(some other details for the next column)
mp3,m4a:<Icon>\c<Album> * <Artist>\n<Size> - <Path>\c(some other details for the next column)

It would for a jpg file place the thumb in column 1 (maybe that needs to be unchangeable) and in the next column (beside the picture) five details as given on two lines, the details here separated by " * ", then more multi-line info for the next column
I suspect mostly this would be conceptually simple as it just needs to be pre-parsed to spot the columns and fields, and then on line display run through and look up the info, concatenating the strings together as the info to show, and putting them in the display.
Perhaps even the ability to make bold/colour/fontsize somehow (at least overall fontsize might be useful, but never underestimate the power of colour in making information readable - one only need think of coloured code syntax highlighting!).
The definition could also specify how many lines to allocate to the whole, since the thumb may be larger than needed for the lines of info defined.
The concept of showing details against a thumb seems to me also quite related to tooltips; so a similar customisation concept could be used for those when you hover over an item, so that you can define what info you want to see, again in an extension-aware way. Some people might want to see Album Info in the tooltip when they hover over an audio file for example, but dimensions when they hover over a picture. Such tooltips would be as useful in details view as in thumb view, for example I don't normally show image dimensions in browse view, but find them useful in a tooltip. At the moment I actually don't get a tooltip in details view although I see listview_tooltips=1.
So eg for tooltip definition:
jpg,bmp,png,gif:<Dimensions> * <Size> * Bits <Bit Depth>\n<Path>
mp3,m4a:<Album> * <Artist>\n<Size> - <Path>

I hope these thoughts might be useful,

David

[siomosp]

I will consider a details with thumbnails mode from the View menu.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I will also look into support for toggling details + thumbnails from a bookmark in the next alpha update.

Thank you for considering this!!!

[void]

I will consider support for customizing the view based on extension lists.

I will consider support for customizing the tooltip based on extension lists.

Thank you for the suggestions!

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1331a adds support for toggling detailed mode with thumbnails.

To create a bookmark to toggle detailed mode with thumbnails:

• From the Bookmarks menu, click Add to bookmarks.... (Ctrl + D)
• Change the Name to:
  Toggle Detailed Thumbnails
• Change the Search to:
  /view=0;icon_use_thumbnails=!icon_use_thumbnails;icon_size=icon_use_thumbnails?64:16
• Optionally set a keyboard shortcut, eg: Ctrl + Shift + 7
  (Ctrl + Shift + 6 is toggle details/thumbnails)
• Click OK.

[siomosp]

Working great!
Thank you!

[null]

Nice.

[therube]

(I don't like it at all.)


Silly question, but, how do you "unbookmark" a "detailed mode with thumbnails" bookmark?
As in, even though I have deleted it (the bookmark), I still don't have just "Details", I still have "detailed mode with thumbnails"?


(I borked Everything. Absolutely the worst thing I've ever done to it .)


It looks like:

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icon_size=16
preview_icon=0

[void]

Add the bookmark again and open the bookmark to disable this effect.

Silly question, but, how do you "unbookmark" a "detailed mode with thumbnails" bookmark?

Unfortunately, there's no option to undo changes from a bookmark.
Most of my bookmarks (this one included) will toggle the effect.



Easiest way to restore these advanced settings:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• Check Show only modified settings.
• Examine any changed values.
• Click Reset to restore the default value.
• Click OK.

In your case:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  icon
• Select icon_use_thumbnails.
• Set the value to: false
• Select icon_size.
• Set the value to: 16
• Click OK.