XnView Software

How about add an option to don't auto expand desktop folder when XnView starts up with desktop folder? Since the desktop folder is at the top of the tree, there is no need to expand all the folders under:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Desktop\

Basically, keep the tree collapsed if XnView starts at desktop folder.

Is it really a generally applicable sort of thing? I mean, are there enough people with dozens or hundreds of folders in their startup directory that expanding them is a major time loss or interface pain?

If you want to argue that the behavior should be controlled by the option "Single-click to expand folders" in options->browser->folder tree, I wouldn't really mind though.

i have a bunch of folders on the desktop and the current auto expanding desktop takes up a lot of screen space on the tree. and i hate always manually collapsing C:\ drive because of this.

btw: the auto collapse option doesn't fix this.