Hi Eliot, Give it a try a few more days and then let us know if you still have problems. Please note that the entries in the "Recently used" list have a "Remove" contextual menu action that allows to remove from that list templates that you no longer use and/or do not want to show there anymore.
Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 9/20/10 5:01 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote: > The fact that the dialog remembers where it was last opened to and includes > recently used templates in the recently used list I think makes it more > usable than I originally thought. > > That is, having used filtering to find where I want to be, I don't have to > repeat it for subsequent File->New actions. > > Cheers, > > E. > > On 9/20/10 8:54 AM, "George Cristian Bina"<geo...@oxygenxml.com> wrote: > >> Hi Eliot, >> >> We can add a flat mode / tree mode switch. >> The tree mode will be the actual mode. The flat mode will still present >> the Recent, Global, Frameworks/[framework] structure but will not go >> deeper that that. The files will be presented with their name and with >> the eventual folder location as suffix. What do you think of this approach? >> >> Best Regards, >> George >> -- >> George Cristian Bina >> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger >> http://www.oxygenxml.com >> >> On 9/20/10 4:33 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote: >>> On 9/20/10 8:29 AM, "George Cristian Bina"<geo...@oxygenxml.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Eliot, >>>> >>>> Have you tried the filtering support? If you type for example D4P in the >>>> filter box (that has the initial focus) then you should be able to see >>>> exactly your DITA for Publishers templates, no matter where they were >>>> placed. Please try this and let us know if it is of any help. >>> >>> That definitely does get me to the templates, but it does require typing >>> that wasn't required before. >>> >>> But I can't think off the top of my head of a way to avoid the need for >>> typing, short of making the Global Templates list flat (that is, not reflect >>> containing directories). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> E. >>> >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> George >>>> -- >>>> George Cristian Bina >>>> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger >>>> http://www.oxygenxml.com >>>> >>>> On 9/17/10 5:56 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote: >>>>> I'm finding the new File->New dialog to be must less convenient than the >>>>> old >>>>> one. >>>>> >>>>> One issue I have is that I have many different "templates" directories. I >>>>> carefully name my template documents so they sort together, e.g, "D4P - >>>>> Chapter.dita", "D4P - Article.dita", etc. That works really well in the >>>>> flat >>>>> list of templates. I tend to organize my templates by type within a >>>>> containing directory named "templates": templates/topics, templates/maps, >>>>> templates/word, templates/indesign, etc. >>>>> >>>>> In Oxygen 11 I could point to the ancestor templates directory and >>>>> everything just worked. Very convenient. >>>>> >>>>> But in the new system, each containing directory is reflected in the New >>>>> File tree, so I get a lot of "templates" entries under the Global >>>>> Templates >>>>> item, with no way to distinguish which project a given templates directory >>>>> is for. >>>>> >>>>> Short of bringing back the old dialog, I think an easy fix would be to >>>>> make >>>>> Global Templates a flat list like the old dialog. >>>>> >>>>> Otherwise I can't think of any easy change that would make the new dialog >>>>> behave usefully with the way I currently have my templates organized. >>>>> >>>>> One of the nice aspects of the old template mechanism was it meant that I >>>>> didn't have to have a templates/ directory that was designed specifically >>>>> for Oxygen, since the use of Oxygen is as much for my own convenience as >>>>> it >>>>> is for my clients. >>>>> >>>>> That is, I want my "templates" directory to be the holder for any kind of >>>>> template for any tool or purpose for which templates is useful, not a >>>>> specific "Oxygen templates" directory. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> E. >>>>> >>> > _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
