Re: OBSystemBrowser vs. Browser

On 29-Jan-08, at 1:41 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> The chasing browsers are useful, but I noticed that most people don't
> understand how they work. Another thing is that they get extremely
> slow as soon as you are in the second or third column. I know that
> this is the same with my inspectors for example. I guess this could be
> fixed with some smart caches?

That's odd. As far as I can tell, adding a pane to a chasing browser  
takes the same amount of time as opening a new browser.  Ben had the  
same complaint, but when we did side-by-side tests, he agreed that,  
objectively, the wait was the same, but he found it more annoying in a  
chasing browser.

> I never noticed a big reduction of windows with OB. The chasing
> browser is a browser that I keep open only for relatively short time.

True. But I find that when I'm finished looking at senders, I only  
have to close one window, rather than 7.

> Also because its live views are slowing down the system. The problem
> is that I usually end up with tons of the System Browsers. The Search
> Browser is useless to me, because it doesn't remember the state of the
> view and it only works together with the System Browser.

What do you mean by the "the state of the view?" I find don't use the  
SearchBrowser much either, but in the few cases where I do use it,  
it's quite useful. I think it has a lot of potential, but still needs  
some work.

> I started a quick prototype of a tabbed browser [1].

Ok, I'll take a look.

Colin

> What do you mean by the "the state of the view?" I find don't use the
> SearchBrowser much either, but in the few cases where I do use it,
> it's quite useful. I think it has a lot of potential, but still needs
> some work.

What I mean is that a selection in the search browser should remember
the state of all the rest, such as the full selection in the following
columns and the state of the editor (cursor position, selection,
edited contents). Essentially like a tabbed browser, but with the tab
labels in the first column.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
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