[ambient-public] Suggestions/Questions

[Nicolas R. <nic...@fr...>]

Hi,


First of all I wanted to congrat the whole ambient team: a lot of improvements have been made to this desktop. It's now a lot more usable than any workbench clone (besides DOpus) !

And now here are some suggestions based on the Ambient version included in MorphOS2 (some stuff may have already changed, but I'm not aware...)

1. Appicons
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A special panel that would hold all appicons, or an option to include appicons on a panel (maybe a new "appicon" object that would do that ?)


2. Internal Ambient music player
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- Why does the player exits after having played a file ? What if I want to play again ?
- Add a little playlist support, so when clicking on a file we may add it to the queue, or replace it
- Add next/prev buttons

I know it isn't meant to replace an audio player. But adding these two options would make it a lot more usefull


3. Inline rename
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Seems like it isn't possible in lister mode: should work here as well


3. different views
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Simplify a lot the views... We have: lister/icons, then in each mode, we have icons, show all, thumbnails...

That's 3x2 = 6 combinations: that's way too complex...

I think we should get rid of the show all stuff: this was usefull when we were using floppy disks, but now we should show all files by default.

This way we would have lister/icons/thumnails mode.


4. Desktop
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Is there a way to align icons on a grid ? Thought it was present in earlier versions but couldn't find it in this version. Volume icons are aligned but not shortcuts dropped on the desktop...


5. Listview
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Why isn't lasso selection available in this mode ?


6. DOpus stuff :)
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Double-click anywhere in an ambient window = goto parent directory :)
FTP :)
Dual Listers ? :)

I think that's it.. for now :)


Amicalement,
Nicolas RAMZ.
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