[txmt-dev] Re: Main Window UI Concept

[Timothy Bates]

On 20 Sep 2012, at 5:30 AM, Scott Richardson <scott.richardson at visionsystemsinc.com> wrote:
> I like the new UI concept, however, I would like the features of the Go To File pallet to be more easily exposed. 
> For instance, I think a little search bar at the bottom of the side bar that searched for a file in the project to open would be very useful (like XCode does).

definitely.

> I also like having a list of open windows. A tab bar only serves me for so long. Pretty soon I fill it up to the point where I cant flip between files quickly anymore. The file browser doesnt work well for this either when projects have large numbers of files. However, I rarely work with more than ~20 files at a time so leaving them open works well enough. Maybe a list of bookmarked files and a list of recent files (per project) would better fill this role. 
A list focussed on files that have been opened, perhaps with a user-setable cap (last n) would be very helpful to me.

I think it’s important to consider that not all people work in the same way, or on the same collections of files, and thus have different needs:
compare person working in one svn project, to person working on a website with 1000s of files to person working on half a dozen projects which change from week to week

This recently used tab would have a list of files that suits the search needs of the latter type of user, and somewhat the person working in folders with thousands of files, where maybe only a dozen are relevant to them.

tim