You're getting into redesign issues, which are difficult to discuss effectively on email lists. You should bring up these issues at a Chimera meeting (though the next one is probably pretty full). On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Greg Couch wrote:
As long as we're voting, I'll vote for all files and directories in alphabetical order (not ascii)
They are alphabetical AFAIK. Let me know if they aren't.
and a different color for the directory names (or maybe with a leading icon instead of the trailing /).
Each column is a Pmw.ScrolledListbox, whose underlying widget is a Tkinter.Listbox, which allows neither of these features. I could look around for another widget, but I would be loathe to construct my own.
And instead of using multiple columns for hierarchical directories, use the columns for all of the files and directories in the current directory.
Urg. I detest navigating hierarchies from a single-directory view. At best, I would offer this as an option.
The open dialog would should up much faster if it only had to list the contents of the current directory.
For me, that start-up bonus would be lost (and then some) the instant I had to navigate to a sibling directory.
On the other hand, putting all of the directories first will speed up directory navigation, especially with the one directory columns. So two votes, with a preference for the first combo.
I guess I count that as a "don't care" for the issue I asked about. --Eric