# ReactOS Explorer Shell Development Separates Components and Expands Shell Class Support

DevFeed: [ReactOS Explorer Shell Development Separates Components and Expands Shell Class Support](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-98-32964.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-98/>)

Published: 2013-08-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>), [Usability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usability.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [shell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shell.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

This ReactOS newsletter reports progress on explorer-new, including separating context-menu handling from content display and fleshing out the IShellBrowser, IShellView, and IShellFolder classes. The work is described as important for usability, while start-menu and rebar work remain.

## Source excerpt

Explorer Shell A while back the project announced a development contract for Giannis Adamopoulos to work on getting the necessary supports for running explorer-new to run on ReactOS. Since then, Giannis has been very busy and has made considerable progress. Much of his work has been properly separating responsibilities in the various components so that there are clear delineations of who does what. There are two major accomplishments, both fairly wide in scope.