FTP client (was .. RE: [TxMt] Re: Bare Bones [was: Public to-do list for TM (was: TextileBundle?)

[Allan Odgaard]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 19:35, Jason Perkins wrote:

> I'm curious to see how Projects are going to evolve, specifically if 
> you're using a third party (s)ftp client. Allan, do you have any plans 
> for this?

The plan is to have the project drawer act as a file system browser 
with a) additional sources  provided by plugins (one being ftp sites), 
and b) the ability to show the contents of multiple sources at once 
(i.e. using split views).

I want to move away from the monolithic *.tmproj file and the need to 
explicitly create projects. So whether you're working with a project or 
not is just a matter of having the drawer open or closed.

There will be a few issues with project meta-data, but for meta-data 
relating to folder views, I'll keep this in the filesystem (as a hidden 
file per folder, only when needed of course), and with regard to which 
files are open in a window (i.e. the tabs) and which sources are shown 
in the drawer, I intend to introduce workspaces.

A workspace is a snapshot of all windows currently open and their 
state. By default it will just remember how you left it all when you 
restart, but if you work on multiple projects you may want to 
explicitly create new workspaces (for new projects) and switch 
workspaces (when you need to switch to another project).

The downside with workspaces is that if you want to have two “projects” 
open at the same time, you'd need to merge the two workspaces 
representing the two projects. So I'm not fully settled on workspaces, 
but I think it's the way to go!