I've been using Camino since the early betas and have only just joined the mailing list. I appologize if what I am about to write is a repeat. (I use Camino 1.0.1 under Debian GNU/Linux (unstable) and run linux 2.4.18)
Suggestions/feature requests (in no particular order) * Camino should have a list of recent projects in the File menu. I find it a pain in the *** to have to wade through the file dialog to open my project. * I would also like to see an option for Camino to automatically open the last project upon startup. * Bug? I have to use the IBM 1.3 JVM because Camino hangs randomly (using 100% of the CPU) when I use any of the Blackdown 1.3.* JVMs. * Sort the items in the left pane's tree. My projects are getting to have *many* jsp's per directory and it becomes hard to find specific ones. * Remember the layout of the panes. * Remember window size and position. * When there are parse errors, those errors should be put right in my face. I don't know how many times I've wasted many minutes trying to figure out why some of my jsp's didn't show up! (This is also related to the sorting request above... It would have been easier to see that a jsp simply wasn't in the list...) One suggestion I have would be to put up a dialog when there are parse errors. * I generally don't care about the warnings displayed in the bottom pane. (The Camino JSP parser can't handle my obviously hiddeous website structure with more custom tags than you can believe!) * (bug?) The jsp parser doesn't deal with <%@include ....%> stuff... This causes most of my warnings since my taglib defs are all in an include file. * Grouping/Collapsing of related objects. What I would like to see is something similar to UML's packages, where you can look at things at a higher level without all the boring details. As the app using struts grows, there simply isn't enough screen space to keep everything visible and scrolling to what you're working on is not ideal. Ask me if I need to ellaborate on this. * Take a look at TogetherJ and try out their auto-layout tool. That's what Camino needs! (I always knew that that stupid graph theory course in college was going to pay off some time! :-)) The layout engine should group things and make every effort to not cross vectors. * I *really* need an undo/redo facility for the layout stuff! I already spend way too much time trying to make things fit. * Wizard or multi-page form support: For what we're doing, most of the web UI will consist of the equivalent of wizards. This means that forms generally have a Back and Next button. The way I do this now is by manually creating the form classes to include all the possible data. It would be nice to have Camino create these more complicated form classes. * Automatic updates: why let Camino examine the source tree and watch for changed files and then automatically incorporate those in the model? This would save me a lot of Project|Reload clicks! You could do what TogetherJ does and only do this when it regains mouse focus or is moved to the foreground. * Visual indicator that something has been changed and that therefore the project needs saving. I've never seen the status bar used for anything... * When reloading, please don't collapse the tree in the left pane! Just update it. With the level of subdirectories we have, this collapsing is a real pain. Ok, that's all I can think of right now. Keep up the good work! P.S.: For those wondering.... Yes I absolutely love TogetherJ from TogetherSoft. Unfortunately, we can't afford (yet) it at my current gig. -- Andrew Scherpbier, CTO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) BlackBall Music (http://www.blackballmusic.com/) === To subscribe/unsubscribe, visit http://list.scioworks.com:8081/guest/RemoteListSummary/camino_user
