Re: Re: Where is "Explore from here"?

On 6 Feb 2004, at 15:38, David Strupl wrote:
> Jan Rojcek wrote:
>> The notion of document is the same in most of the IDEs. I think 
>> everybody would understand that.
>
> I don't build IDE.
>
>> So, what are the specific windows you or users you heard from want to 
>> dock somewhere but it is not possible?
>
> We use different terminology. We use term "Tool" to refer to usually 
> TopComponent. Tool can be tree view or map view or list or whatever 
> suitable. It makes sense IMHO for e.g. the tree based tools to be able 
> to be docked anywhere. They can be easily your documents and also the 
> help views. The distinction is IMHO useless - at least for us. One 
> user might use the tree as primary view for something (document) while 
> the other might use it as helper for something else. There can be 
> several instances of tool opened at the same time (like document) but 
> the tool might not be the primary focus of the user (help view).
>
> My only concern is that the command line switch that allows to disable 
> enforcing these things will be preserved.

I agree that the document/non-document distinction doesn't work for all 
products. AFAIK, the winsys infrastructure supports ignoring this 
distinction at certain level, so you don't have to use it in your 
product.

-Jano