[TxMt] Re: file browser behaviour in TM2

[Travis Dunn]

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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