Hi Everyone, Given the issues raised about the directory tree widget in Padre at the moment, I'd like to raise an idea or two.
To me, the directory tree always causes me some confusion in its intended use. Is it a convenient file system browser or is meant to be bound to the "project"? I think in many ways this can be a problem for others as well when they find the directory tree doesn't do what they expected. I've been using Visual Studio a fair bit, and the concept of the project browser is a good one. You know it's bound to the project at hand ( basically because that's all I work in I guess ) because it doesn't offer any visual indication that you can move up a directory level in the file system ( as you see in the directory tree ). The root of the tree is the project root. Now, I'm wondering if we don't have a separate widget for each idea here, one the convenient file system browser, with context menus for open file, create new file etc, and one for projects that has it's root as the project root and with it additional menus such as "Import file" or "Add file to project", making it more clear in it's terminology that this is indeed a project specific widget. I think there is room for both widgets, even in use at the same time ( maybe... ). Just a thought or two... Peter.
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