Re: [rox-devel] RE: MDI interface for ROX

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 05:35:28PM +0000, Jesse Wagner wrote:
> >Would it be very difficult to create an option like in Windows, to
> >"display or not" the tree on the left, from / to /var ?
> 
> When I talk about MDI I'm mearly talking about a tabbed interface like
> Mozilla (better if it was like Opera).  I have to agree on everyone
> else that the tree idea is not a good one.  If I liked it I would be 
> using gmc.

I've no particular objection to a thin drag-bar on the left of the window
which can be dragged out to reveal some kind of navigation aid.

I'm not sure a tree is very useful, either. Filer windows tend to be quite
small and trees like lots of space. Eg, if you're 6 levels deep, with only
the ancestor nodes expanded (ie, the smallest possible set of visible
nodes) and, say, 10 items per directory (very conservative!), that's a
minimum of 60 items!

I seem to spend rather a lot of time scrolling up and down in tree
displays...

One thing that might be useful is to just show siblings of the current
directory in a flat list. So, if you're in Images/Planets/Earth and
browsing pictures of the Earth, you'll see a list of the other planets
along the side.

Or, we could put something else there (eg, the file menu).


-- 
Thomas Leonard			http://rox.sourceforge.net
ta...@ec...		ta...@us...