On Jan 14, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Simon Denier wrote:

> 
> On 14 janv. 2010, at 00:33, Romain Robbes wrote:
> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Future work: integration in the browser :)
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> How do you envision that? I tried to not be too browser-specific, as these 
>>>> things are moving targets.
>>> 
>>> I would not integrate that in browser because it makes the state machine of 
>>> this brittle tools brittler and like that you 
>>> can focus on working set functionality vs browser bugs :)
>>> 
>> 
>> If anything, WorkingSet makes code browsers look like disposable entities. 
>> It opens so many of them that it even includes a shortcut to close all the 
>> windows opened by it :-).
> 
> I was thinking of a browser focused only on items displayed in a working set. 
> However, this is a slightly different definition of working set (one where 
> you can also pinned down some entities).
> 

well, you could try the "recent submissions window"  World > Tools > More ... > 
Recent Submissions .
WorkingSet is a kind of nicer ui to the same data (so far).


> One problem I noticed but related to completion (because I also have this 
> problem with the mercury search bar). When completing a keyword message, 
> spaces are automatically inserted between keyword to put parameters. This 
> fails the search because it does not take the full message, only a part of it.

yes, I'm aware of this

> 
> On a sidenote, it seems that installing WrokingSet deactivates the shortcut 
> to Algernon (shift-return). Can someone confirm?
> 

that's possible. there's no keyboard shortcut registry, so we both did an 
override in the same spot, I suppose.

> 
>> 
>> What I would like to have now is a better window placement, with 
>> possibilities to tile windows. 
>> Has anybody done something like that already?
> 
> I think that Stéphane did a bit of hacking at one point :)
> I know the logic is in the RealEstateAgent class.
> 
> At one time, I thought that making the window appears with the title bar 
> right under the mouse pointer could be a good idea. If the window placement 
> does not suite you, you can click and move the window. Besides, if you open 
> windows through the world menu, that means you clicked in an empty space 
> right before, so good location to start.

One think I need to try is to have windows openInHand and not openInWorld. Then 
you get to place them
yourself. I have to see if this makes using the tool cumbersome or not.

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