Re: Additional items in tree view

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

I know everybody loves the idea of a multi-rooted tree...

...but wouldn't it be more usable (and easier to implement) to have a 
way of _selecting_ between different roots, rather than using a 
multi-rooted tree?

For one thing, the list of folders in the tree sidepane is already so 
large as to necessitate a lot of scrolling, having a true multi-rooted 
tree is going to make that much worse. Seems like having the 'roots' 
listed at the top with an icon (or something like that), would be much 
quicker to navigate.

Also, some people have talked about having virtual roots based from, 
say, the user's home directory. In a multi-rooted tree it seems like 
that might be confusing, compared to only viewing one single-rooted tree 
at once (Click the 'Entire disk' icon, see the entire disk. Click the 
'Fred's folders' icon, see only your home directory - assuming your name 
is Fred. Click the 'Local network' icon, see all machines on the lan, etc).

Darryl.


Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 01:02, Greg wrote:
>  
>
> > sorry if this has been posted I did look through some archives but could not
> > find it.
> >
> > Is there any way to add items(smb: network: burn: etc) to the root of the tree
> > view? Much the same as M$ do in their explorer
> >    
>
> Not at the moment. But someone was working on this. I'm currently a bit
> busy, but soon I'll take a look at his work.
>
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