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Summary: | Split Project view - nodes up, leaves down | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | pekarna <pekarna> |
Component: | Explorer | Assignee: | Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | mmirilovic |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 7.0.1 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
pekarna
2011-05-06 15:50:41 UTC
Addition to the reasoning: The usual use case is: 1) user looks for a file in some package 2) so he needs to expand the package 3) user opens the file, or more files 4) the package contains many files, so it makes the list confused, it's hard to track the structure since one screen height can't fit whole project 5) So the user needs to close the package again and this repeats... With the split views, expanding, scrolling and closing would be replaced by two clicks. Because users are not interested in leaves when they are not looking for them at the moment, I could even imagine using only the nodes tree, and when a node would be clicked, a "popup panel" would appear (aligned with the nodes view) with the list of leaves. The popup would remain visible until it or the nodes view looses focus. Nice, but we do not plan to create such feature. You can use Favorites if you would like to see the list of your favorite nodes... |