#7837: [Tracker Preferences] Make "Single window navigation" default ------------------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: deejam | Owner: axeld Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/alpha3 Resolution: invalid | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All ------------------------------------+----------------------- Comment (by pulkomandy): axel: that's the point in my idea of browsing vs. management. Workbench is not a good tool for it, but DOpus really shows what can be done in the management side - while being useless at browsing. The same situation could be seen in Windows 3.11 (progman vs. file manager) or even in windows 95, were spatial mode and single window with directory tree lived happily together. There are some similarities for example in Palm OS, where the default interface was very application- centered, with no way to access your files. On my Palm I used a tool called Filez that was a file manager, and allowed me to see my files and manage them. On 8-bit microcomputers it was an usual thing to navigate in BASIC (using load, run, that kind of things), this was a tool to run apps and load files, any complicated operation would require a dedicated disc management tool with copy features and so on. There are various samples of this idea in different systems, and I'm curious how it would work in a modern system like Haiku. but this would be better done as a blog post if I ever take the time to write it :) -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7837#comment:24> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.