[TxMt] Replace the drawer

[Steve Lianoglou]

> What are your reservations about the drawer? I know it can sometimes 
> "forget" its assigned width and height when the window is resized, due 
> to some window manager bugs. Anything else?

The only problem I have w/ the drawer is something like this:

let's say I have a file-structure that's somehow deep:

root/
  files  
  files
  files
  folder/
    files
    files
    files
    folder/
       files
       files
       files
    folder/
       files
       files
       files
      
well, anyway ... the fact that the drawer doesn't have scroll bars (horizontal) is what I'm trying to get to.

Let's say I'm working on a group of files that are 3, or 4 levels 'deep' (folders down, whatever).

The drawers, if it's not wide enough, will truncate from the middle .. so I'll have a list of files like:

So..php
So..php
Li..php

err .. anyway . you get the idea .. unles, of course, I expand the drawer pretty wide to see everything ... w/ a 'pane' or side window/whatever, I can scroll the 'focus' of the pane/panel over to the right so I'm only looking down the column I need to be looking at .. I don't need to read the beginning of hte file names 3 parent dis up .. This way I can read the beginning of the file name (If not all of it) of the section I'm working in so I know which file is which .. and .. well, you get the idea.

I don't hate the drawer, I'm just saying, that's the one thing I find to be annoying.


But like Alan said, the cmd-t *almost* makes it irrelevant, but not exactly ...

-steve