Re: Re: GPE/matchb

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 13:17, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> > The best I've seen so far was a WinCE machine with a 'Running' tab -
> > maybe appmgr could query for running windows & appicons and put them all
> > in a tab...?
>
> Hmm... yet another tab?

I was already wondering whether, if we're trying to give gpe-appmgr this
kind of special status, a running programs tab would be sensible.

We are getting too many tabs, but:

- the last time I checked (not in the last few days) there were still a
few programs which invented their own sections not in the Familiar menu
policy;

- I suspect that the 'all' tab shouldn't really be there - something's
wrong if you need two different views of the same relatively small
number of programs on a heldheld;

- it might be better (and satisfy the people who have an 'all' tab just
now?) if gpe-appmgr could (configurably) collapse sections together, so
that we could end up with say: 'Active tasks / Applications /
Configuration / Documents';

- since I'd still also like us to have a recent files tab: we can
presumably include something to achieve this in the GPE libraries, but
see http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/recent-file-spec.html .

Alternatively, if people don't like the idea of the recent files tab in
gpe-appmgr, it could be a special view when you start up the file
manager, but I think it would be useful enough of the time that it would
be good if we could make it very easily available. The idea being, that
to get back to that text file you were edit / play that memo you
recorded recently / whatever, you just go to that tab and click on the
appropriate icon, rather than having to remember where you saved it.
Lots of users of Microsoft products appear to rely entirely on the list
of recent files in the 'File' menu of their programs.... While in
general it's better to encourage good organisation of files, on a
handheld you want the system to do as much for you as possible, as
quickly as possible, and you probably won't have that many files you're
editing, so this sort of shortcut becomes a good thing.

-- 
Moray