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fenixproductions:
2Innuendo

Please believe me, I did not try to write about anything. I wrote about what I think is the best.

I agree that exploring plugins might look like Sisyphus work (there are about 500 of them available) but without any knowledge what would you like to achieve it is hard to tell you anything. I can only point out some interesting features or answer specific questions. There are too many features to describe them all.

If you want to I can think about small guide in the form of listing of the plugins I use. You could treat it as starting point.

On the other hand, you might consider to take a look on existing TC packages like Total Commander Power Pack or Total Commander Ultima Prime. Those two are "Ghisler accepted" and they show what can be done in TC. They also offer additional tools and nice plugins sets for daily usage. BUT please be aware that their purposes differ: TCPP is meant as quick TC guide while TCUP is complete package to be installed after system re-installation (install it and you need nothing more).

urlwolf:
@fenix:
Sorry, I'm not sure I asked you before... is TC under wine convenient? do you get icons? double-click opens the right tool? all unix paths work fine (e.g., what happens if I open dev/null?
Do plugins work?

I'd be interested in your list of plugins, definitely. I use a slimmed down version of TC UP.

Thanks!

fenixproductions:
2urlwolf
I think I've answered to your question here ;)

I can add that I had no problems with plugins I was using back then.

Below you will find my list but it's more terrifying than my first post IMHO.
"My list"
RU means rarely used (in most of the cases it is just the remain from the past);

WCX (packer)

* 7zip - 7zip archives handling;
* aes - encryption plugin (used a lot during private beta tests);
* audioconverter - audio files conversion (RU);
* AviWcx - treats AVI files like archives (RU)
* blat - sends files as emails attachments (RU);
* bzip2dll - bzip archives handling;
* CatalogMaker - files lists creation;
* CHMDir - useful for working with CHM files;
* cpio - Linux stuff (RU);
* deb - Linux stuff (RU);
* DiskDirExtended - files lists creation;
* gaup_pro - unpacks files from over 300 games;
* GifWcx - working nicely with animated GIFs;
* ICLRead - quick icon libraries creation;
* ico - allows to unpack custom sized icons from ICO files;
* Imagine - simple images operations (resizing, etc.);
* img.wcx - IMG files support (RU);
* iso - working with CD/DVD images;
* MhtUnPack - allows me to extract files from webpages saved from Opera;
* msi-plus - working with MSI files;
* multiarc - adds support for formats not handled by other plugins;
* pack - Quake 3 and his offspring :)
* ResExtract - useful for working with executable files resources;
* rpm - Linux stuff (RU);
* TotalSQX - SQX format support;
* wcx_mdb - working with Access files (RU);
* WdxInfoPacker - generates nice files reports;
WDX (content)

* 7zipInfo - 7zip archives details;
* Age - shows days names (usually I don't care about exact date);
* anytag - audio files properties;
* Attributes - additional files attributes (RU);
* AudioInfo - audio files properties;
* cda_file_info - CDaudio support (RU);
* CDocProp - Office files info;
* comments - shows if file is mentioned in descript.ion (my own plug);
* cputil - recent plugin by Ghisler for working with Unicode named files (I hope it will support Unicode characters replacement in the future);
* DirSizeCalc - shows folders sizes;
* dummy - shows hardcoded characters (used to bypass SuperWDX limitations);
* EmptyWDX - checks if dir is empty or contains files matching user defined phrase (my recent child with wildcards support);
* ExeFormat - executable files info;
* exeinfo - executable files info;
* FileDesc - shows additional files descriptions and allows to combine multiple plugins info in one field; it can even use WhereIsIt plugins;
* FileX - additional files info like file type, MIME or associated application;
* HTML - HTML files properties;
* IconLibrary - I am checking icons existence in executables with that one;
* Images - image files properties;
* jpg-comment - image files properties;
* media - audio and video files info;
* MIDlet - JAVA files info;
* Office2007 - Office 2007 files info (my own child which handles all Xes);
* OOInfo - OpenOffice documents info;
* Opera_Cache - checking my browsers cache is a lot easier than before;
* rarcolumns - RAR archives info;
* reginfo - first plugin I ever wrote which shows MIME type (RU);
* SecInfo - files security related details;
* ShellDetails - takes files data from Explorer;
* ShellLinkProperties - all about shortcuts;
* sla_wdx - Scribus documents info (my own child but RU);
* SUPER_WDX - combined files info;
* SVGwdx - SVG files info (I am trying to enjoy my life: my kid again);
* TextLine - shows text files lines (useful for visual search);
* TextSearch - plugin for searching text in many documents formats (uses external conversion tools);
* trid - files recognition (used TrID databases);
* wdx_eml - saved emails info;
* WDXcontains - checks if dir contains specified file (supports regexp but RU due to EmptyWDX);
* WDXTagLib - audio files info;
* xPDFSearch - PDF files info (also useful for searching through PDFs);
WFX (filesystem)

* AceHelper - processes info (RU);
* ADO_DS - nice on-line databases browsing (RU);
* badcopy - recovering files from damaged CD/DVD (RU);
* CoRegistry - nice for searching in Registry;
* cpl - Windows Control Panel in TC (RU);
* DBLister - one more databases plugin;
* decClipboardFS - clipboard operations (RU due to Screenshot Captor)
* DevMan - system devices info (RU);
* efsplugin - Brew based phones support;
* envvar - easy editing of system variables;
* eventnt - System Log viewer;
* ex2fs - Linux stuff once again (RU);
* fr - FilesRedirector plugin which creates virtual file system (RU);
* ftpmon - nice FTP servers monitoring (RU);
* MirandaFS - thanks to this guy I can still brows my 4 years old Miranda IM archive (priceless);
* mp3cmd - MP3 database (no need for MediaMonkey);
* MS_SQL - and databases once again (RU);
* NetworkAlt - better LAN support (RU);
* ntfsfs - NTFS handling for Win9x; in newer Windows versions it helps to detect hidden resources on my HDD (even shows MFT file!);
* OperaFS - Opera notes and bookmarks browsing;
* PROCFS - processes info;
* registry - one more Registry editor (will be RU when CoRegistry leave alpha stage);
* Ripper - ripping CDaudios;
* services - usefull for quick system services switching;
* sftpplug - SecureFTP support;
* StartupGuard - shows system start-up info (RU due to Autoruns);
* tcburner - nice CD/DVD burning (RU);
* TConsole - embeds CMD into TC window;
* TempPanel - virtual filesystem (RU);
* TotalConsole - same as TConsole (why do I have both?);
* TStart - Windows Start menu browsing (I know, it's overkill);
* UnInstTC - quicker software uninstallation;
* versions - web pages monitor;
* VirtualDisk - mounts disk images;
* wipe - secure files deleting;
* wmdmplug - Windows Media Devices support (my friend has Zen player);
WLX (lister)

* anytag - audio files info;
* cbxthumbs - shows thumbnails for comics files (CBR, CBZ);
* DBLister - few database files support (RU);
* decThumbsDBViewer3 - preview of thumbs.db files (RU); also supports other thumbs databases (i.e. from ACDSee);
* dvi - DVI files preview;
* excellence - Excel worksheets preview;
* Font - fonts files preview;
* gswlx - PDF files preview;
* ICLView - icon libraries preview (this plugin is excellent example of "what is missing in image viewers");
* ieview - allows to preview files using Internet Explorer controls (I am using it for MHT and CHM);
* Imagine - the bestest for images handling :)
* IniEd - nice INI files editing;
* LinkInfo - shows LNK shortcuts info;
* mplayer4tc - embeds mplayer.hu in lister (RU because it worked perfectly in the past but recent mplayer updated broke something);
* nfoview - NFO files preview;
* NoDirQuickView - dummy plugin to speed TC a little bit (if you're using QuickView TC slows down when you select some folder because it counts its size and this plugin stops that);
* office - Office documents preview;
* Office2007 - Office 2007 documents preview (my own buggy child);
* OOView - OpenOffice files preview;
* PDNplugin - I wrote this one for viewing Paint.NET files thumbnails on computers without this software (RU because I have PN on my PC and don't use other machines);
* Playlist - playlists files info;
* scrlist - allows to preview screensavers;
* SQLLite - SQ-Lite databases preview;
* SVGwlx_vs - SVG files thumbnails (yes! I did it again!);
* swfll - SWF files support;
* SynPlus - excellent text viewer with code highlighting;
* tcCld - adds calendar to TC (RU);
* Thumbs - additional files thumbnails;
* Torrent - little thief helper;
* wlx_csv - shows CSV files in nice tables;
* wlx_eml - saved emails preview;
* wszview - winamp skins preview (RU - wow! I still have this one?);
* xBaseViewFree - database files support (RU);

urlwolf:
fantastic list. Thanks!
And great to hear that 7.5 will work well under linux.

Innuendo:
tranglos, I enjoyed your post. It was very informative as I didn't know a lot of that stuff & what made it better was fenixproductions came along and showed how you could do things a little more efficiently with some of the tasks you demonstrated.

fenixproductions, that was an awesome list and you better believe I'm going to be mimicking a lot of your plugin setup. My main problem has always been finding three or four plugins that do the same thing (read Office files, read PDFs, etc.). I think I can be pretty sure you have the best of each type in your setup.

urlwolf, Total Commander just as this amazingness about it that for whatever reason instills envy from people who use non-Windows machines. Not only does Christian get tons of requests from *nix users, but from time to time there are Mac users clamoring for it as well.

I've heard of people having success with Wine and CrossOVer. That puts extra layers of trust between you and your data, though. First you have to trust that Total Commander is going to interact well with an OS that it was not designed to run under and you also have to trust that the Wine/CrossOver people got everything right that TC needs to operate properly. In that equation I trust Christian completely. Those other factors? Not so completely. I'd definitely do some tests on some non-important data before trusting my entire system to such a setup.

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