Re: [rox-devel] Pinboard (fwd)

[Garrett C <ga...@cs...>]

Hi all!

<snip>
> > > 
> > > How many people would want to use Pinboard support? For those who want
> > > it, having it in the filer is faster and smaller; for those who don't it
> > > is a waste of several K.
> > 

But presumably not all that big. I'm impressed by the size and speed of
ROX to date.  I think that an integrated pinboard would add much
functionality, if it is implemented well. 

> Pinboard support is coming along quite well. I've committed the latest
> version to CVS now.
> 
> The way it works is that you run the filer as, eg:
> 
> 	$ ROX-Filer/AppRun --pinboard MyPinboard
> 
> This makes the background receptive to drops. You drop some files onto it
> and the filer creates a file called <Choices>/ROX-Filer/pb_MyPinboard
> with their positions and paths. This will be automatically loaded the next
> time you use '--pinboard MyPinboard' to invoke it.
> 
> Still needs a bit of work, but I'm quite pleased with it so far. Drag
> icons with Adjust to move them. Click with Menu to remove them (it'll
> popup a menu eventually, of course).
> 

Sounds cool! Are there plans for RO4-style arrangement of icons
eventually?

Also, I liked the way that closing a window with the adjust button in RISC
OS opened its parent. I realise this is a problem when the window manager
is seperate from the filer, but was wondering if there were any way of
querying ROX to get that sort of information.  If this were the case, a
Lisp extension to Sawmill should be possible.

It does sound like a lot of work for such a small feature though...

Cheers,

Chris.