XnConvert Input tab - File properties display

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XnConvert Input tab - File properties display

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Some time ago, the Input tab was modified to display a row of some ten file properties to the right of the file Name heading, which to my sensitive eyes seriously cluttered a previously very simple interface. I asked that the display be made an optional as a setting but that wasn't acted on.

In order to make the XnConvert interface as simple and attractive as possible, may I now ask that a button be added somewhere to the right of the file name heading which enables display of those file property headings when desired, I'm not sure how many users actually use them. Or better, a button that enables selection of only those file properties that it is desired to display.

One of the attractions of the brilliantly-conceived XnConvert design is its simple a attractive interface, so let's try to keep it as simple, clean and attractive as possible... :D
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Re: XnConvert Input tab - File properties display

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do you talk about the columns in detail mode?
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Re: XnConvert Input tab - File properties display

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xnview wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2026 6:55 am do you talk about the columns in detail mode?
Size | Modified date | Created date etc.

They all appeared suddenly in an update some time ago, and as I thought they made a previously simple display look cluttered, I asked if a setting could be added on the Settings tab.

I am now, possibly rather optimistically, asking if it might be possible:

o Rather than adding a setting on the Settings tab where it would be hidden, to use maybe a button on the Input tab to enable/disable display?

o And for the benefit of any user who does need them, to enable display of only selected parameters.

Making the first screen that users see clean and simple should be beneficial, and users who wish to view properties of the files loaded would probably appreciate being able to select the properties they wish to view... :D
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Re: XnConvert Input tab - File properties display

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