[hatari-devel] New FileSelector

[npomarede at corp.free.fr]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was too upset with hatari fileSelector.
> So, I've reworked it a little.
> I've added
> - 1 pixel precision scrollBar,
> - Gem look and feel
> - 17 lines displayed instead of 16 before
> - upper left button for ".." folder
>
> Still to do :
> - allow to scroll the scrollbar with the mouse (for now, it just displays the 
> current view of browsed files)
>
>
> Question :
>
> - Do you like it ?
>
> - Can I remove the old ".." button, as now, you can  move to upper folder 
> with the upper left corner button ?

Hello,

I would not remove it, I don't think all users are aware that gem 
way of going one level up was by clicking the upper left corner (and quite 
frankly, I don't think the way gem worked was the more intuitive way).

>
> - some suggestions ?

pressing the up/down arrow in the scrollbar is doing a fast scrolling, 
which is nice, but holding up/down keyboard key doesn't have autorepeat. 
Could you add it ?


More generally, changing the UI can be nice to propose some new ways to 
work, but I think it would be best in that case to provide some code than 
can be turned on/off using a "define".
Once we agree on a new UI, we can remove the #ifdef and the old code, but 
in the meantime, I think it's best to be able to choose old or new ui at 
compile time to test it and go back to old ui in case some regressions are 
found.



Nicolas