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Brandon, why I imagine that the next windows iterations are going to be less and less minimalistic? :/

I think that the best basis to build any visual project its minimalism, reduce everything to its essentials and build from that.

No No you got it all wrong what Brandon cant tell you is that when ya buy the next version of windows called Windows 7 they give you 8 sharp needles with it that plug in to the USB port and what those do is stick in your brain and you tell Windows how you wish it to look and act but only you can see and hear your session cause to everyone else you are just an idiot with needles in your head

Well you can drag them into another window, onto a subfolder in the current view, or onto a location in the navigation pane (Favorite Links or the folder tree).

Dragging onto the breadcrumbs isn't something I think many users would try or expect to work, but I can mention it to the PM who owns that feature.

those all work well i know... i just think it would be more convenient to drag something into the folder 1 level up...

dragging into another window would require you to open up the folder first.

for sure if you want to move something into a subfolder, just drag it to the subfolder in the current view

favourite links would require the shortcut of the folder be already made

and folder tree is a bit messy...

i know it probably won't be the most used feature, and its quite minor, but it would be very convenient.

What Microsoft is doing wrong now is giving the user TOO much options. Throw most of the text out of the toolbars, cut out some icons, fix the bloaty sidebars. (Make it remember folder views :huh: )

Personally not a fan of it, but it puts out some neat ideas that could be incorporated in other ways.

Going in another direction, though, what's with people making so many things gray now? I realize Apple made gray 'snazzy' in their own camp, but didn't we get tired of that back in Win9x? It seems like everybody forgot five years of overwhelming grayness as soon as OS X decided to give it a slight gradient, and now it's infecting everybody's sensibilities.

I will be COMPLETELY satisfied with explorer in win7 if all you do if fix the goddamn folder view bug.

You're absolutely right. The explorer in Vista is very well done, except for this one HUGE bug. And yeah, the registry fixes wear off over time for some reason..

Inspired by this thread, I gave my own idea for a windows explorer a go. Not so radical as the original poster's one, but solves some of the issues I have with vista's

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The orange box is instead of a tab bar. It would show all the other open explorer windows, and would switch between them, so there would be no more than one window, but that window would swap when picked from the orange box or the taskbar grouping. Copy and paste would work between the windows...

Maybe if it had different colours, or if it was a little more "compact" it might be nice, but it needs work.

For a concept, it's not very expandable friendly, if I had a JPEG file that can open with 10-15 different programs, that list is going to be ugly.

Here is a somewhat more polished attempt at an Explorer Concept. I have a few things missing from this idea from my last, but I spent ages turning my quick sketch into this, so please excuse that!

Whats missing is the preview pane design (Imagine it set to off, and it would appear at the bottom), as well as the additional button at the top to switch explorer windows. (I would imagine you could pull off the explorer windows, and drag one window to the stack button to stack windows into groups!

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