[iyonix-support] Re: !ROFS updated

In message <1184069764.469378847ad17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Quoting george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> Now if you could only add a 'select all' option...
>
> I will consider it.  Well, I have been considering it ever since
> you first mentioned it... it would be a significantly different
> user interface of course.  And there are some other more basic
> things that have to go in there first.
>
> Of course I'd really prefer that we were able to get the full
> functionality from the OS, then I wouldn't need to develop ROFS.

True, but I wonder whether it would not make more sense to change the 
way ROFS works rather than rewriting more and more of the Filer, which 
is highly unproductive. If ROFS worked as a (non-image) filing system 
then it could let the Filer do all the hard user interface work. ROFS 
could then do away with all of its user interface code and users could 
immediately make arbitrary selections, have multiple windows open, 
open files on the card directly, etc. A filter could detect clicks on 
the drive icon and open the corresponding ROFS Filer window for it, so 
it could integrate seamlessly into the system without requiring any OS 
changes.

Martin
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