Re: Patches improving tree view (multi-root and auto-follow)

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:40, Todd Kulesza wrote: 
> Mark Finlay wrote:
> > * All vfs urls should have a place somewhere in the heirarchy.
> > 
> 
> How about restricting that to only show vfs urls with actual items in 
> them?  If my machine isn't on a network, a smb:// tab is just going to 
> take up space.  The same goes for possible future additions like 
> cameras:// and printers://.  Simply hide them while the VFS is empty, 
> and display them if a device is connected.

I'm no usability specialist but I suppose that wouldn't be that nice.
IMO it's confusing if a program looks different as soon as I connect my
computer to a network. Probably it would be better to just visually
deactivate unused nodes because I think that space isn't that much of a
problem if we keep the tabs on the left side. In a usual window size
there is space for about 10 to 12 tabs and I think that's already on or
above the upper limit before a user looses the overview.

Jürg