Re: [E-devel] Multiple views of the same dir

[Till A. <ti...@ad...>]

# Quoting Christian Kreibich (kre...@in...):

> Yeah, me, and I agree that it's good work. Till has implemented
> basically exactly what was suggested on the list. Had a bit of a chat
> with Till lately, and we agreed that the view model should have explicit
> knowledge of the list of files a directory contains (stored as a
> hashtable) to minimize Efsd communication. When that's there, we should
> have a good basis and a nice design for multiple views.

Ok guys and girls (and boris),

if nobody minds I'd like to commit what I have now, because I think the
remaining issues can be fixed quicker in cooperation. Everything else is
done, including the E_File/E_Icon separation and the list of files in
the view model.

A todo off the top of my head: 
- icon_move_cb is currently #if 0'd because frankly its a mess. Maybe
  whoever wrote that can help me clean it up and make dnd work again. :)
- metadata handling is disabled. I still think there's the need for
  discussion here. Do we really want to save _every_ damned icon's
  coordinates? When should we save? On view close?
- iconbar handling needs to be improved (but will be rewritten, so I
  made it work reasonably and stopped there. dnd is broken)
- epplets I have not even looked at
- the list of files in a dir is still a list. This would better be an
  ewd_hash, as discussed.
- the sucker probably leaks all over the place
- currently the dirty flag (view->changed) is ignored and all views are
  redrawn by the idle handler. Proper setting of this flag is obviously
  needed. We need to hunt down all places where a redraw is really
  needed.

There's probably more because I needed to touch quite a bit of code to
get this done right. Obviously this means some regression, features that 
were there are temporarily broken, but we're in alpha, so what the hell
and I think its worth it. :)

If you want another patch to look at, shout.

Cheers,

Till