From: Christian R. <to...@bi...> - 2008-08-25 17:54:13
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Hello Nicolas On 25.08.08, you wrote: > 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...) > 3. Inline rename > -- > Seems like it isn't possible in lister mode: should work here as well It is, maybe you disabled it in the settings like me. > 3. different views > -- > 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... That's non entirely true. There are 2 kind of views: Lister and Icon There are 2 flags for both views: Thumbnails and Show All (don't get confused by the old - and probably soon going away - Cycles in the ambient view. Check how it's solved in the context menu or in the viewmode switcher button to get the idea.) > 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. I don't think so. 'Show All' concept must stay. Probably some forced default for Windows users who don't know it differently could be added. But afaik that's there already (see Lister settings). > This way we would have lister/icons/thumnails mode. That won't work, see above. 'Thumbnails' is not a mode but a flag. > 4. Desktop > -- > 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... There are aligned. Try to drag'n'drop a shortuct slightly overlapping to another one and it will drop to an aligned position. Don't forget to snapshot it if you have autosnapshot disabled in the preferences. > 5. Listview > -- > Why isn't lasso selection available in this mode ? It won't work by design... and honestly it doesn't make much sense in list mode either. > 6. DOpus stuff :) > -- > Double-click anywhere in an ambient window = goto parent directory :) > Dual Listers ? :) Ambient is not supposed to become a DOpus clone. If you want DOpus use DOpus. See it like this: Ambient is in the middle between Workbench and DOpus but far more advanced than both of them. And btw, there are enough broken DOpus concepts in Ambient already. :\ > FTP :) Already on the Todo list AFAIK. regards, -- Christian Rosentreter MorphOS 2.0 ~ http://www.morphos-team.net/ you notice things if you pay attention. |