Re: [Gprename-users] New Revision 11

[Lacrocivious A. <alt...@ya...>]

--- Zurd <zu...@ya...> wrote:

> And here's a few answers :)
> 
> (1) About the revision number :
> Each revision of each files is shown on the SVN
> webpage
> at :
> http://gprename.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gprename/

Thanks. I wasn't aware of (or had forgotten about)
that page.


> (2) "Also I should learn to refer to GPRename 2.0,
> not 1.7"
> Please :) 
> As for me, I think I should delete the 1.7 in the
> SVN repositery
> so
> it only shows "gprename", meaning : that's the
> latest code. Because
> working on GPRename 2.0 in a 1.7 folder is indeed
> confusing.

I agree. I believe it would be a good idea to simplify
the directory name.

> (3) About full-screen :
> That's funny, I have the same preference but the
> other
> way around, I want my application to open always in
> full screen and I dislike the one that never open up
> in full screen :-)

This merely proves how vastly superior my own
intelligence, beauty, taste and fashion sense are than
your own! ;-)

> Nonetheless I added an option, by default, GPRename
> will now
> open in 640x480. Then resize it, bigger, smaller or
> even
> maximize, quit the application (file/quit, close
> button, alt+f4,
> whatever) and open it up again, it'll show with the
> size you
> just choose.  I didn't save the position of the
> window though.
> But should I?  Would it be useful or a nuisance?  Or
> maybe open
> up the application centered in the screen? Or leave
> it like that?

Wonderful! The application does remember its size now.
My preferred size is about 900 x 500 usually, and this
 makes it possible to avoid that every-launch
adjustment.

As for remembering position, in my view this isn't
very important, and can be put off indefinitely.
Opening in the middle of the screen (like WinOS tends
to do) more often than not covers up something you
need to see. I say let the OS or window manager take
care of that. In KDE, opening position seems to be
dependent upon some kind of rotating quadrant
selector, so each app loads clockwise from the last
loaded.

> (4)
> Yeah, it's kind of annoying to always see the
> preview of names even if
> you're just browsing, it's kind of weird, but
> honestly I
> prefer it that way, it's much faster than having to
> hit the
> "Preview" button all the time.  

See 'intelligence, beauty, taste and fashion sense',
above ;-)

> But I could always put back the "No Preview" option,
> instead we
> could call it "Automatic preview", use it or do not
> use it.
> If
> you do not use it, you'll have to click the Preview
> button.  I could
> put that one by default when the user opens the
> application for the
> first time.  I guess that'll be okay?

Your 'automatic preview' option selection sounds fine
to me. That way we could toggle the feature on and off
at will.

Also, please remember I am only one user, making one
user's suggestions ;-)

> (5) Default opening directory :
> Yeah that would really be useful, it was there with
> GPRename 1.7, but since I change the code of the
> Tree Browser,
> I have to redo it all again and I'm really having
> trouble with
> it right now :(

Not to worry. Let that one sort out later. The older
versions defaulted to the user home directory which I
found just as irritating, so actually starting with /
is just fine.


> (6) Load time :
> So GPRename 2.0 is slower to load than with previous
> version?
> I don't think you're talking about the load time
> when you
> open up the application, since they both seems to be
> around the
> same time, like 1-2 second :-)

Perhaps I was not clear. I meant to say that v2.0
loads *faster* than the old versions, particularly
faster than 1.3. As for operation on files, I haven't
noticed a significant difference, but v2.0 'feels'
faster overall.

The old versions loaded pretty quickly on my systems,
but there was an annoying bouncing icon that persisted
for about 30 seconds. I'm pretty sure it was just a
failure to notify Gtk that 'we're finished loading'
but it was still a nuisance. Your new version doesn't
have that problem.

Thank you again for your fast response and bug fixes
;-)



 
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