Re: Where is "Explore from here"?

On 30 Jan 2004, at 17:10, David Strupl wrote:
>
> I have just noticed that this action is missing in the trunk build. Is 
> it on purpose? If so are there any rationale behind removing it?

This action actually is in the trunk build, shown in contextual menu of 
folder node. The truth is that this action is useless in the new 
windowing system as it opens an explorer type of window in document 
area, which doesn't make much sense.

There are two ways how to fix this (copied from issue 36850):

- completely remove Explore from Here action. My opinion is that the 
Project window
can be used for similar purpose. The user can point to commonly used 
folders and
use them from Project window. This of course is not the same, as all 
preferred folders
are shown within one window, but I think it is good enough.

- more complicated solution is that the Explorer from Here action would 
open a tab
inside the Filesystems window (or inside each explorer based window). 
So, it would
look like Output window which contains nested tabs if there is more 
than one output
available.

There is also a proposed solution to open a new window as another tab 
next to the Filesystem window, but this won't work with the new 
windowing system, as all windows open around the document area must 
have an item in Window menu. The set of windows open around document 
area is predefined by product/modules and the user can't change it.

In the new build system this action would be almost useless anyway, so 
I will suggest to remove it from NB 3.6 completely.

-Jano