Re: If you were in charge of RISC OS...

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:05:06 +0100
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No Rob, you've spent too much time using imitations of the dismal
Windows filer on Linux. The tree view is actually a very poor concept
wedded to the use of a single filer window, dating back to full
screen applications.

More nonsense. Tree views are just as easy to use to open directories
in new windows as they are current. It's a delightful way of getting a
high-level view of just the bits of the file system you want want see.
It even often decreases the amount of mouse movement you need to do to
move/copy files, and access directories elsewhere.

You can actually work far more productively drilling down the
directory structure clicking on nice large directory icons

No, I can't. I work more productively by typing in the path to the
directory I wish to visit with tab completion, as well as using the
tree view functionality to only show the parts of the file system I am
interested in. It lets me narrow my view to just the parts that are
relevant a that time, in a space-efficient manner.

Thumbnailing has been Select for the past 5 years. But isn't it a
damming indictment of your tree view, if after navigating through
that you still don't know where you are?

The thumbnailing in Select has been almost worthless for much of this
time, given the narrow range of formats it supports, the inability to
have it automatically on only on some directories, the
uncontrollability of the size, the lack of good multitasking while it
generates them, the lack of caching the generated ones, etc....

And I'll take any visual cue that's essentially free and uncluttered
over not having it. Especially if one's dyslexic or wants to quickly
scan through documents.

RISC OS may have many shortcomings these days, but the filer and drag
& drop saving isn't one of them. You just need to remember how to use
them and take off the blinkers from years of acquiescence to inferior
ways of working.

This is the most hypocritical thing I've heard all day.

(And incidentally, the graphical filer I use on the occasions where I
don't just use the command line [which is a vastly superior way to
access one's file system] is entirely unlike the Windows Explorer.)

B.
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