Re: #96239 Implementing a "Column view"

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 6:48 AM, Gene Ragan wrote:
> ...
> The first thing I would mention, is that column view is non-trivial 
> and has many, many subtle behaviors.  Some of these behaviors are 
> still far from perfect and some are down right annoying.  Column view 
> does not mesh well with the concept of spatial browsing.  Finder users 
> often find themselves in mental conflict with which view  settings 
> should be applicable when spawning windows out of column view.

Most prominently, the appropriate default window size is wider for 
column view than it is for spatial mode.

> It is vital that you have a complete specification for how a column 
> view would work.  If you just want to model it after Apple's, you 
> probably won't find all the edge cases and specialized behaviors that 
> are coded into Apple's version.

I'd be glad to help write such a specification on live.gnome.org. I 
like thinking of edge cases. :-)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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