Two hours ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I would think that browser-like buttons are enough, and match the > stack philosophy.
+1 > I also think that stacks are fine. If working with bookmarks suggest > we want something else, we should explore this as a second step. > > Finally, I would hate to see these things saved in preference files. +1 to this too: the preferences wouldn't be the right place for it. Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: > FWIW, if done well, I think saving them in the preferences file > would be quite useful. Perhaps it would be good to have some kind of > "restore last time's stack" or "clear out my current stack" What happens when I synchronize my preferences between machines, or use them from two machines with different files? (Also, please don't use "stack" in a UI-visible way...) Two hours ago, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > On 2012-02-03 12:06:16 -0500, Stephen Chang wrote: > > Any ideas on what the graphical representation should look like? > > Should it be a popup window? Or a side bar? > > I like the idea of a breadcrumb UI (maybe at the bottom like PLaneT?): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadcrumb_(navigation) Same objection as Stephen's... I think that I've seen a breadcrumb-as-history UI somewhere (which I can't rememeber, since these things are very rare), and it was bad. I like the chrome approach: just two arrow buttons, and a long click drops down the history menu. An hour and a half ago, John Clements wrote: > > One vaguely dangerous element here is that in the browser model, > there's no persistent connection between a window and a source file, > whereas an IDE typically does have one. Will this "back-arrow" > functionality also work on jumps to definitions that live in > different files? This opens up a bunch of UI questions for me. > Possibly it's simpler just to ignore this for now. +9 The difference between letting it navigate to other windows or not make this a very different feature... -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
