On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:57 +0200, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> Also, let me propose some rework of the View menu (independently
> from the master-buffer-view being accepted or not):
I'm in favour of this change compared to the present menu.
However I'd like to make a couple of suggestions for the View/Update
functionality which is a bit clunky IMHO.
Assumption: View and Update perform equivalently when the most recent
preview was closed by the user.
Suggestion: Update should be the preferred behaviour, which is easier to
access from the menu and which the keyboard shortcuts point to. A user
who genuinely wants ten open previews will ask for it. (This could be
made a configuration option as to which is the preferred and which is
"alternate".)
Assumption: It is possible to detect whether the most recent preview is
still open. (See first assumption, I believe this is implied by that.)
Suggestion: A dialogue could ask whether the user wants to update the
existing preview, thus only one menu item is required for each file
format to preview. They need only one set of keybindings, plus two more
for "Update existing" and "Open new preview". One of those could be the
default so it's really "Enter" plus one more ("N" for example). Maybe a
third option "Cancel" in case I didn't perform any edits and I forgot it
was open on another desktop or whatever.
The above suggestions sound to my untrained self to be straightforward
to implement and big improvement in the UI. If there is support I'll
file an enhancement on bugz.
Have fun,
Darren
