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martinchrzan / FileExplorerGallery

Windows File Explorer Gallery
MIT License
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Love the App. #3

Open WatchTheory opened 2 years ago

WatchTheory commented 2 years ago

Love the FileExplorerGallery. I have a feature request.

One thing that I would like to ask is if this app is compatible with other thirds-party explorers. Example like Directory Opus, FreeCommander, XYplorer and others.

martinchrzan-workday commented 2 years ago

@WatchTheory Happy to hear that!

This is unfortunately not possible in general as these are "closed" apps, I can do this in windows explorer because it exposes internal API so I can get information about opened folder, sorting etc. However in the case of third party apps, I can only detect if some app is currently active, I don't see inside it, it is a black box for me. In order to enable something like that I would have to develop special plugins for them (if they support it) and you would have to install that plugin + FileExplorerGallery. It is not impossible, but quite a lot of work :(

WatchTheory commented 2 years ago

I understand, Thank you for clearifying.