🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <ant1016310b0Tpza@hpsound.demon.co.uk>, Kevin Pearcey
<URL:mailto:kevin@hpsound.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <na.4958024749.a50210inspire@argonet.co.uk>, Ian David Robinson
> <URL:mailto:inspire@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Having loads of windows open (and therefore covering the major part of the
> > pinboard most of the time) is not an efficient way of working, in fact it
> > denotes more accurately someone who 'clearly isn't using their computer
> > properly'.
> > 
> 
> Well I would say that reducing the size of even a single working window
> so you can see all your files on the pinboard is far less efficient. 

I like the concept behind StrongEDs "File menu" - click on the extreme
left edge of the screen, and bring up a collection of pre-decided files
and recently run (history) files. It is possible to be build a lot on
that concept, since it nullifies one hassle; opening filer-windows on
a desktop filled with program windows. I'm not saying that the Iconbar
-> Filer-window access-route is bad - I'd frown at anyone who would
bring us towards the abominable Windos/MacOS-solutions - but in some
instances the need to open umpteen filer-windows in the process of
hunting down a file on top of, say, programs which uses ages to refresh
their display-window, is a true pain. (Pardon the awful sentence.)

If the File-menu idea were extended to include some of the features
of Ben Summers brill "Memorizer" (notably filetype icons) and maybe
a few semi-clairvoyant tricks noone's thought of so far, we'd be
moving in the right direction. Ideas, anyone? :)

-- 

Regards,
Sveinung W. Tengelsen                              
a.k.a. pixeleyes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Dolphin Design is StrongARMed | mailto:pixeleye@sn.no
| Phone:+47 22 42 97 58         | http://www.sn.no/~pixeleye/Index.htm