Re: outlines vs. lists (was Re: Commit: Various Lists UI improvements.)

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 9:59 AM -0500 2/6/01, Randy Kramer wrote:
>Mike -- have you ever used a folding editor?  Was it useful?  If not,
>was it because the concept was not useful or because it wasn't, for
>example, integrated with an IDE?
>
        I'm not Mike, but I use  a folder editor pretty frequently,
and it's VERY useful for editing source code since I can close up
blocks that I'm not currently interested in to see more logic w/o
scrolling.

        In an outliner, folding of "heads" is appropriate for the
same reasons - you want to see more of the context w/o scrolling. But
I don't think we need folding in AbiWord for 1.0 - though if we do
want to provide outliner functionality (either as a sectional element
or as an alternative view) we WILL need it at some point.


Leonard
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