I'm unconvinced by the new tabbed UI: it typically means more clicks
to do the defragging.
The "Defrag" button now appears to do a full disk defrag, i.e. files, folders
and freespace. This is only needed occasionally. In previous versions
this would just defrag the selected files, so for a quick defrag, could just
click Analyze, then select all files and click Defrag.
Now, with the new version, to do the same thing you have to click Analyze,
then View Files, then select all files, then remember to right click to get the
context menu and then scroll down to Defrag Checked and left-click on that.
Not that that is difficult, but I don't think it is particularly obvious and could
put off some newcomers to the program (they may not find out how to do it).
Now, not everyone wants to look at the list of fragmented files anyway, so
how about the following compromise between the old UI and the new...
Having the tabbed UI means more space on the "Drive" tab in which extra
buttons could be placed.
So...how about slimming down the height of the Status and Properties groups
and adding buttons at the bottom of the Drive tab to the right of the Analyze
button something like this...
-------------------- Defrag Options -------------------------
[Just Files] [Files+Folders] [Free space] [Entire Drive]
...The Files button would defrag all the files found in a previous Analyze run
(or if none done, then would effect an analysis first). Similarly for the Files+Folders
button, except that folders too would be included.
This would mean that most users could choose exactly what type of defrag
they wanted very quickly and easily (and obviously).
For those relatively rare occasions when one only wants to defrag certain files,
one could just do the Analyze, then click View Files, select the target files and
use the context menu to defrag those selected. This is an excellent feature of
Defraggler, it's just that [iMHO] it is less likely to be used than the other options
- particularly the first two (Files, Files+Folders)
What does the forum think of that ?
It's good that Defraggler now persists the window properties (size, position etc)
- could the "Priority" option be persisted also, perhaps ?
