Re: [ambient-public] Suggestions/Questions

[Christian R. <to...@bi...>]

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/

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