[haiku] Re: Desktop folder disappears from /boot/home

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2009-06-22 at 10:49:37 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
[...]
> > In spatial mode, the Desktop is the root of the directory, so you 
> > cannot 
> > navigate up, anyway, or you would need to present different 
> > hierarchies 
> > to the user which I think is a bad idea. Finally, we could make it 
> > an 
> > option that is always the same as the "single window browsing mode" 
> > - you 
> > will see the Desktop in that mode, but not in spatial mode. But, 
> > you 
> > could manually alter TrackerSettings to force Tracker to do that. 
> > But 
> > since we already break spatial mode with allowing the same folder 
> > to be 
> > opened on two different workspaces, maybe that's superfluous, and 
> > it 
> > should always be allowed (it's your choice then, anyway). Or make 
> > an 
> > option for that, and have the Desktop thing depend on it, too.
> > I would be all for this change, then.
> IMHO that the same folder can be open in more than one workspace is 
> actually a very good thing. For example, I have the "Haiku" source 
> root 
> folder open in more than one workspace and have different other 
> folders 
> open in either workspace depending on what I work on.
> 
> I am in favor of making it possible to open the Desktop folder in 
> both the 
> spatial and single window browsing mode, maybe with different 
> behaviour 
> depending on the mode.

Which would be in line with what I wrote last: have one (hidden or not 
I don't care) option to make Tracker less spatial.

> I don't like the single window browsing mode at all, and would favor 
> changes be done in a way that they don't break either mode and keep 
> them as 
> separate as is necessary.

Indeed - that's one of the things that should be cleaned out once we 
really get to Tracker :-)

> In any case, I would love to have a decent explanaition on why anyone 
> would 
> want to use single window browsing. I mean, I do understand it's 
> useful for 
> actual "browsing". Only that browsing using the context menus in 
> Haiku is 
> so much more powerful and so much quicker than anything else. So when 
> actual "browsing" is out of the picture, I don't understand why 
> anyone 
> would /not/ use the spatial mode.

The only actual reason there is is habituation. People may not be 
familiar with a spatial file system viewer, don't understand the 
concept, and don't want to get used to it.
Personally, I find single window browsing absolutely awful. But still, 
many many people are using it, so while I think we should at least 
default to spatial mode, there also should be a single window browsing 
mode for all those helpless cases out there :-)
If a Tracker rewrite does not support single window browsing, I would 
assume it won't take long until there'll be a patch pending that adds 
that thing back.

Bye,
   Axel.

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