I don't think you guys are the only ones, but I do think you are the minority here, at least in wanting the original drawer back. The drawer is a UI element that (i think) makes more sense with smaller app windows. A code editor can be a variety of sizes and for me, my window is usually fullscreen. The drawer doesn't work particularly well for me if my window is fullscreen, the drawer also doesn't make a ton of sense with the transition to native fullscreen mode. You'd have a drawer element transitioning to a different element entirely when it went native fullscreen.
I don't think the new file browser is "stupid" at all, if anything it's more inline with how most other editors handle the problem (not saying that TextMate can't/shouldn't be unique), but in this case I think it was a good decision. The drawer was awkward in my opinion, it's pretty much the only reason I used Project Plus, cause the interface element felt strange.
That being said… maybe there is some way to have a preference for it or something… the resizing thing does seem to be annoying if you're expecting the old behavior.
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Sep 9, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Piero D'Ancona wrote:
Dear All,
am I the only one who is annoyed by the behaviour of the file browser in TM2?
No. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks the current design is, um, stupid. I routinely size the text part of an editor window so that I get 100 characters on a line--it's an easy way to get the most efficient screen usage and an excellent way to discipline myself to not run over my preferred line length. I work on a laptop so closing and opening this panel or drawer is something that actually makes sense, but with the constant unwanted resizing of the window it just gets really aggravating. Either I have wrapped line fragments or 20 characters' worth of wasted screen real estate. Apple made drawers for a reason.
Jerry
when it is invoked, it eats space in the window and pushes the text in a smaller area. I find this quite ugly and much prefer the old behaviour, where the file browser slid out of one side of the window so the resulting total window was larger, and the text in the window was unchanged. Any way to customize this?
Thanks Piero
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