Re: [rox-devel] RE: Tree (was: RE: MDI interface for ROX)

[Gregory S. <gs...@fr...>]

On Tue, 07 May 2002 17:07:37 +0200 (CEST), Arnaud Calvo
<ar...@ca...> said:

>
>Le 07-May-2002, Thomas Leonard a =E9crit :=20
>> I'm not sure a tree is very useful, either. Filer windows tend to be
>> quite small and trees like lots of space. Eg, if you're 6 levels deep,
>> with only the ancestor nodes expanded (ie, the smallest possible set
>> of visible nodes) and, say, 10 items per directory (very
>conservative!),> that's a minimum of 60 items!
>
>Hi
>
>I'm not sure to well understand your explaination...
>I think about an entire filer window showing the tree OR the objects
>inside a dir would be simplier.

Like OS/2's WPS?  Make it even better...give us per-directory settings so
we can open a directory and have it have the attributes best used with
that item...some could be trees, others big icons (picture directories),
others small icons, and ROX doesn't do this, but I wish it would, some
could be NO ICONS AT ALL.

In addition, per-directory colors and pixmaps would make it nice to
quickly navigate what you have open visually.

>That way, one could open a tree filer window that could be arranged on
>the left by the WM, and it would be simple to middle-click on any dir to
>open new "ordinary" filer windows to use drag & drop with them...
>
>Do you understand what I'm trying to explain ?

Yup.  The OS/2 WPS.

>
>Or if you want to display the tree in the same window, how 10 items of 6
>levels of dirs could be displayed at the same time ? The items displayed
>would only be those from the directory selected in the tree ! (I agree
>that it would probably be necessary to use panes, to manage differently
>the tree & the items parts...

Yuck.
>


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