[haiku-development] Re: FilePanel opened pre-emptively
- From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 18:35:05 -0400
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Philippe Saint-Pierre <stpere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But, that file panel contains a PoseView and it keeps being fed with
> all the FS notifications of your home folder, while the window is in
> fact hidden, and might never be showed to the user during that
> session.
I think this is indeed suboptimal. Things open fast enough on Haiku
that I really don't see why we would want to cache these as we do.
> I was wondering what were your thoughts about this, should we just
> create the FilePanel objects as needed, or the current behaviour is a
> non problem?
I have another concern with these hidden windows: it makes application
scripting more difficult, since frequently the first window (Window 0)
ends up being the hidden file panel. Those "bad surprise" moments are
the sort of thing I think we should avoid in Haiku. Though I can
concede that most people are probably not using the hey command that
much to script things (but I'm not really sure.)
--
Regards,
Ryan
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