Total Commander

Image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2371091/totalcmd/long_context_menu.png

Is it possible to prevent file or folder name from appearing in the menu when you right click on them? I find it rather irritating when the menu width shrinks and expands dynamically every time I right click on different folders or files

I think we need an option not to replace Open item name with file name.

No, you cannot turn it off, sorry. The name is shortened automatically when the menu would become too large for the screen.

ghisler(Author) wrote:No, you cannot turn it off, sorry.

Ok but why? Mind explaining a bit more about that?

ghisler(Author) wrote:The name is shortened automatically when the menu would become too large for the screen.

This isn't good enough for me. It would be more appropriate if the menu item length stays consistent at all the time. You could probably make a hidden option to set the max length for it before it gets truncated. I believe this is a desired solution now

From what I can tell the display of the directory name appears to be hardcoded in the various DLLs utilized for handling windows context menus -- i.e. it doesn't appear to be configurable from the registry.

The only way to disable it - would be for TC to have it's own ContextMenu. Other file managers do this, and it is a useful mechanism that allows you to easily customize what should happen with a given context menu. I believe one implementation that I've seen allowed one to choose which Context menu should be the default (on right click), and which should appear when using a modifier key, e.g. Shift+Right Click.

Balderstrom, I think TC renames top menu item itself from default Open to filename before displaying menu.

Hehehe. Well I guess that explains why I couldn't find it in the registry for Explorer settings then!

2ghisler(Author)

I'm really hoping that we'll see an option to set the max chars length for the menu item name in next release. This is one of major annoyances in TC for users that are working on small screen device like netbook. I hope you could understand that.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2371091/screenie/tc_2011-03-10_17-18-27.png

Btw, moderator, please move this topic to the suggestion section.

[mod]Moved to the Suggestions forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]