[Bf-funboard] File Browser proposal

[William Reynish]

Hi Matt! It's a good idea to do some more research
next. 

I don't have the latest OSX, and I got the impression
that the file browser has been changed in the newest
one?

Anyway, this is what the file browser looks like in my
OSX version (10.2 as far as I remember):

Save:
http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/filebrowser_osx_save.jpg

Load:
http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/filebrowser_osx_load.jpg

They are really cool, but also very simple. However,
as far as I can make out, they don't really have space
for adding all the functionality required in Blender
without a little chnaging in position etc.


Below is a tiny update of my mockup (couldn't help
myself). Just changed a few things here and there.
http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/fileselector2.jpg
It suggests a way to add favourites, which would be
quite nice. This is just a suggestion as to how it
could work..


I still agree that we should discuss things more
thurally, so the mockup can be regarded as very much
work in progress.

Hey, I just noticed that ou have uploaded some
filebrowsers in the feature
requests(http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=363&group_id=32&atid=207).
Cool!

Now we can start to examine the good/bad points of
different file browsers.



-William



 --- Matt Ebb <matt@mke3.net> wrote: > 
> On 2 Dec 2003, at 4:24 AM, William Reynish wrote:
> 
> > About the file browser, I will review it today.
> You
> > mention the OSX file browser - I'll just check it
> on
> > the Mac. I forgot to implement your "new
> directory"
> > button too. Also, I will look at some ideas and
> > corrections posted by a few people and see if I
> can
> > come up with something.
> 
> Actually, it seems it might be a better idea to take
> a step back first, 
> and do some research, rather than working by trial
> and error. Like in 
> that colour picker topic, it would be a good idea to
> go and analyse a 
> bunch of different file selectors, look at what
> functionality 
> (controls, hotkeys, etc) they contain, the
> advantages and disadvantages 
> of how they are laid out, and also analysing just
> what functionality 
> would be suited for Blender, and what would be
> superfluous and 
> unnecessary. For example, It would probably be quite
> unnecessary and 
> bloated for Blender to contain (like in Windows XP)
> Icon, Thumbnail, 
> Tiled, List, Details, Filmstrip views. It's also
> good to keep in mind 
> other file operations, like appending, importing,
> exporting, saving 
> renders, etc. since the same thing would probably be
> re-used..
> 
> I also recall that the GNOME unix desktop project
> are in the process of 
> re-designing their file selector - does anyone have
> any links to the 
> discussions that have taken place surrounding that?
> We could learn 
> something from them and avoid duplicating effort.
> Anyway, I think it 
> would be much easier to make something more
> concrete, once we have some 
> sort of a specification of what's good, bad, needed,
> or not.
> 
> What do you think? I'm finally getting some free
> time back again, so I 
> can give a run down of the OS X one in the tracker.
> 
> cheers
> 
> matt
> 
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