Re: Where is "Explore from here"?

Hi,

you are a bit late with the answer - I have already seen (and commented) 
issue 36850.

Jan Rojcek wrote:
> 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.

It is not good enough. You cannot have there e.g. class node of your 
favourite class.

> 
> - 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.

I don't understand the imperative "must have an item in Window menu". 
What are you trying to say? Are you trying to somehow enforce that there 
cannot be more instances of non-document windows? Why? I might be stupid 
but I don't understand while even documents cannot be docked anywhere 
but you are the expert here. Hope that this will not be enforced since 
we definitelly don't want it to behave like this in our non-IDE app. 
Here is my prediction for you: there will be significant number of users 
saying: why for hell cannot I dock this here? They will not understand 
your notion of document. You will find out yourself after you hear the 
compliants. Beleive me - I have heard them already.

All the best,

David

> 
> 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
> 
>