On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:28:10 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:43:57 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty
> RW> with split view, the left side is divided into two panes. the upper
> shows a
> RW> piece of the tree, the lower shows the leaf nodes in the selected
> node of
> RW> the tree from the upper pane.
>
> Hmm, interesting. I've never seen anything like this, I probably should
> play with it when/if I have time.
i found it exceptionally convenient when i had to cope with large,
groups of book marks. for example, in web browsing, i could impose my own
sort order on the various news websites. i could select the news node in
the bookmark tree, and the bottom pane would show the news sites, sorted in
the order i wanted (which was according to how frequently i visited them.)
i could see something like this for email. at the very least, i'd like to
be able to set the display order for the folder tree; i'd put the pop and
imap mailboxes i monitor at the top, all together. i should think that
would be easier than implementing the split view, and it might be more
useful.
i'm pondering how one might do a newsgroup view. you want a hierarchical
structure, but you probably don't want the tree layout marching to the
right; the space is narrow and group names are long as it is. perhaps the
basic layout is with top levels shown:
alt.*
comp.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
to look at subscribed (or all) subgroups below, you click on it. perhaps
left click is show subscribed, and right click is a menu that includes show
all, and other similarly useful items. left clicking on comp might then
lead to this display (we assume that i'm only subscribed to comp.lang
groups):
alt.*
comp.* (color changed to reflect open status)
comp.lang.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
clicking on comp.lang might then reveal:
alt.*
comp.* (color changed to reflect open status)
comp.lang.* (color changed)
comp.lang.c
comp.lang.lisp
comp.lang.tcl
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
just some thoughts about what it could look like...
richard
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