Re: why not merge that eclipse-perspective-lookalike and NB3.6-explorer tree ?

Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 15:22 schrieb Tor Norbye:
> (b) each dir component would cause the files to scroll further to the
> right thus increasing the likelihood of horizontal scrollbars and
> either clipping the left or the right side of the display. E.g. rather
> than
>     abc.foo.bar.baz
>         MyJavaSourceFile1
>         MyJavaSourceFile2
>   I had
>      abc
>          foo
>               bar
>                    baz
>                          MyJavaSourceFile1
>                          MyJavaSourceFile2
That doesn't realy count. You have to scroll a too small window in tree-mode 
and in flat mode, cause in both cases the interessting part is on the 
rightmost place, and as far as i know there is no implementation that aligns 
and scrolls a panel from right to left (except hebrew,arabian, or so).
A flat list of 30 identical items "abc.daf.gh....." is not that beautiful site 
to look at. If you scroll the window to the rightmost place and longer names 
show up as you scroll down, you have to scroll to the right again, and if you 
have sourcefiles with identical names in different packages, your lost when 
your flat list clips away the package name.

>    (Notice also how the old behavior takes up a lot more vertical space!)
just if you expand ALL nodes, but why would you do that? 
Why do you want nodes under abc.foo.bar.baz to be epanded when you are working 
in abc.foo.def.ghi?
Also if you have to work at abc.foo.abc.def.MyJavaSourceFile1 and 
abc.foo.ghi.jkl.MyJavaSourceFile2 simultanously, you can collapse all the 
nodes between, and have the interesting parts of your project as close 
together as possible. In flat mode you have to scroll for miles in all 4 
directions or use another kind of navigation to go from a to b. But that is 
another story.


> typically I more often jump between methods in my files and that
Why not use "goto source", goto implementation", or the new 
"usage"-navigation?
regards

Peter
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Peter Buckenleib
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91056 Erlangen