On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:06:38AM +0300, Andrew Borodin wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:29:04 +0100 Janek Kozicki wrote: > > The git HEAD mc has a little different layout: > > > > Left File Command Options Right > > +<- ~ ----------------------------.[^]>++<- ~ > > ----------------------------.[^]>+ > > |'n Name | Size |Modify time ||'n Name | Size |Modify > > time | > > > > Can you tell me what is the meaning of: > > > > 'n (on left of the Name) > > , or ' is the sort order indicator: ' means direct order, , means > reverse order. Mouse click on it inverts the sort order. > more common symbols would be ^ and v (and proper arrows for charsets which support them). anyway, see below.
> n is a sort mode indicator: n means Name. Mouse click on columt title > (Name, Size, Modify time) changes the sort mode. > > > < (on left of the top bar) > > Go to previous directory in panel history using mouse. > > > > (on right of the top bar) > > Go to next directory in panel history using mouse. > proper arrows (filled triangles like in scroll bars, i think) would be *probably* better here, too. > > .[^] (on right of the top bar) > > . -- show/hide hidden files and directories using mouse (the same as Alt-.). > [^] -- show panel history using mouse (the same as Alt-H). > the visual inconsistency between [^] being a "pseudo-button" and "." just a "free-hanging" symbol both looks bad and is confusing (thus bad usability). anyway, i find the added visual noise annoying and in no way justified in the first place: - easy access with the mouse is utterly irrelevant. one might think about it once drag&drop, context menus and other "mousy" stuff would be implemented, but i don't see much point in mouse support *at all* - in mc, it just doesn't help a lot for other things than marking and pasting text, which are functions better done by the terminal emulator (i.e., pressing shift in addition to buttons) (unless proper integration with the x clipboard is finally implemented). - assuming mouse interaction is removed, just displaying the current state is relatively useless as well, as one can easily see the effects in the first place. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
