[Concept] Explorer for Win7

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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...

This is real good, I really hope MS implements some sort of Ribbon in Windows 7 Explorer.

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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Much better than the previous version, good work. I hope MS atleast implements some sort of Ribbon into explorer, as you have done above.

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some good ideas there, the GUI reminds me of mac too much though

+1

I find it a bit overkill though. I actually like how the Vista explorer is now.

martinDTanderson: Nice explorer ribbon concept. As long as it could be hidden, THAT would be a good idea.

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My only real beefs with the Vista Explorer are that a) It doesn't show the total space used by the files in the folder without pressing Ctrl-A, and b) The intelligent view choosing can't be overridden without some wacky registry edits (If there's one MP3 in the folder, it'll change my default colum selection for Details view to its own thing with Artists, Ratings, Genre, etc).

And speed improvements, of course, are always appreciated.

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