Suggestion Next Release

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> But, but, but... You've already got a perfectly fine multitasking, 
>> multiwindowing system where you can open as many instances of something 
>> as you want.  If you want several file manager window open, just open 
>> them and park them where you want separately.  Why do applications need 
>> to have anything to do with this on their own?
> 
> It's still a multiwindowing multitasking system, it's just showing me a
> more convenient view of things. 

But you can arrange the same view even more conveniently yourself by 
explicitly opening the few locations you want and positioning the 
windows where you want them instead of having to do oddball commands to 
not get all the intermediate windows you don't want if they stay around 
by default.

> Add to that remembering where those
> windows go means I can work even more efficiently on commonly used
> directory sets since everything will be where my muscles remember them.

I rarely do repetitious work in GUI's since it is so much easier to 
script it or recall/re-execute command lines.  But what I do want is 
consistency in the way apps act regarding opening new windows instead of 
having to remember different actions depending on which app the mouse 
happens to be positioned over. And it doesn't make any more sense to me 
for a file browser to default to open a new window on every click than 
it would for a web browser. What I'd like in both, and for everything 
else where it would make sense, is to have a right-mouse menu with 'open 
in new window' as an alternative to 'open'.  I'd like the choice, but in 
my experience I'll want to use it much less often than using the current 
window.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com