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Has anyone heard anything about MS File Explorer getting open sourced? I'm using a Lite version of Directory Opus from a Humble Bundle mostly because the MS Fi

Has anyone heard anything about MS File Explorer getting open sourced? I'm using a Lite version of Directory Opus from a Humble Bundle mostly because the MS File Explorer does some weird things with the left-side tree view. It would be awesome to fix + recompile that :) (Side question: Is the file explorer it's own app, or part of the larger Windows GUI shell?)

type0 8y ago
WinFile is MIT licensed now, maybe you have confused it with File explorer -don't think that could happen anytime soon. https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
- WorldMaker 8y ago
  Aside: the Windows OneCore and Shell Experience and C-Shell refactoring efforts have done a lot of work moving File Explorer into its own application finally divorced from a lot of the rest of the GUI. You can see it in Task Manager in 10 versus previous, esp. XP: fewer miscellaneous Explorer.exe processes and more fun new components like Windows Shell Experience Host. (Hard-crashing Explorer.exe is a lot less devastating to overall the stability of Windows 10 than it was back in XP [or 95].) So we seem to be a lot closer today to a world where File Explorer is just another app, and maybe even considerable for open source development, than you may imagine.
  - MikeTheGreat 8y ago
    I hadn't heard about CShell. Thanks for posting!
    - WorldMaker 8y ago
      Yeah, it's an interesting topic that Microsoft for multiple reasons is keeping mostly behind the curtain. I like following C-Shell rumors, as a Windows mobile fan (rumors are that it was hoped C-Shell would have been a lot faster to build and might have kept Windows 10 on mobile form factors "alive" longer), and also because it sounds like a lot of cool effort that will probably be underappreciated when it actually finishes.
- MikeTheGreat 8y ago
  Seeing the announcement about WinFile + Calc got me wondering about MS/Windows File Explorer. Would you mind expanding on what you don't think MS could open source the File Explorer?

type0 8y ago

WinFile is MIT licensed now, maybe you have confused it with File explorer -don't think that could happen anytime soon. https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

WorldMaker 8y ago
Aside: the Windows OneCore and Shell Experience and C-Shell refactoring efforts have done a lot of work moving File Explorer into its own application finally divorced from a lot of the rest of the GUI. You can see it in Task Manager in 10 versus previous, esp. XP: fewer miscellaneous Explorer.exe processes and more fun new components like Windows Shell Experience Host. (Hard-crashing Explorer.exe is a lot less devastating to overall the stability of Windows 10 than it was back in XP [or 95].) So we seem to be a lot closer today to a world where File Explorer is just another app, and maybe even considerable for open source development, than you may imagine.
- MikeTheGreat 8y ago
  I hadn't heard about CShell. Thanks for posting!
  - WorldMaker 8y ago
    Yeah, it's an interesting topic that Microsoft for multiple reasons is keeping mostly behind the curtain. I like following C-Shell rumors, as a Windows mobile fan (rumors are that it was hoped C-Shell would have been a lot faster to build and might have kept Windows 10 on mobile form factors "alive" longer), and also because it sounds like a lot of cool effort that will probably be underappreciated when it actually finishes.
MikeTheGreat 8y ago
Seeing the announcement about WinFile + Calc got me wondering about MS/Windows File Explorer. Would you mind expanding on what you don't think MS could open source the File Explorer?