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Concept for the files manager

Forum thread started by lucmars on Tue, 2008-02-12 17:03

This is not a mockup but some pics describing the concept for the Haiku's files manager.

Mainly, one has a path indicator; files and folders can be displayed as icon or as a detailed list, in this case each folder can be expanded. One also has a status bar displaying the space used by a given folder and the remaining free space.

Nothing new here, excepted that one has a vertical toolbar. That doesn't prevent to have a horizontal one or the both, but the principle here is to place a control for anything which can be displayed at the right-hand side or the left-hand side. For example (see below) one can switch the tabbed path indicator in write mode.

Haiku GUI - just mucking around

Forum thread started by jus101 on Thu, 2007-09-13 22:26

It's a bit rough, blatantly rips off other OS but it's not really finished. Let me know what you think.


http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=haikuexcc1.png

I didn't do the icons btw - they're a mix of famfamfam and kde crystal icons.

Justin

Enso

Forum thread started by commodore on Wed, 2007-08-08 19:07

Check out the video on the front page:
http://humanized.com/
I was VERY impressed when I saw this. I can program a bit but I can't understand how they did it? Don't you have to write some code to connect programs to that thing?

EDIT: I think it would be a semi-great idea to implement it as a one-line terminal with the feature that completes your words when it finds something similar (...whatever). Then you could make commands for it in all kinds of languages (bash, python, C...). The only problem is that it can't complete the arguments :(

Do your theme yourself.

Forum thread started by lucmars on Fri, 2007-08-03 18:12

I've read an article about how the Haiku's icons can be so light. That leads me to the differents features that usual OSs provide to customize the appearance.
I conclude that if we can change the desktop color or set a wallpaper, that can be inconsistent with the icon and texte color, the window color and everything upon the desktop. So if we can change the desktop background, we should be able to change the rest accordingly.

Can I do that with Haiku?

I'll go further. Is there a GUI toolkit that the developer use and which could be available to the user as well?

What the Tracker tracks?

Forum thread started by lucmars on Mon, 2007-07-02 19:39

I guess it's about files and folders, but is it as well a search fonction and everything else that falls under the notion of tracking?

More generally, what can we track with a Tracker in a computer?

Multi selection on windows ?

Forum thread started by lucmars on Mon, 2007-06-18 22:23

Hello

I don't know BeOS, neither Haiku. So, I won't propose some mockup or some theory about UI, I will simply ask a question.

Can I select several windows and apply on them an action (for example, minimizing or resizing) as if they were a single window ?

Thanks

Text Editing as a system service

Forum thread started by Leaflord on Sun, 2007-05-06 10:34

Its been a while since I last posted here:

I've been using Vim[never used Emacs...] recently and I liked its text editing features, but the app is limited and you can only edit text. My idea is, what if Vi's text editing features are available to every application? This is what I have in mind:

In Vi -- I type the text after pressing [i], I press [esc] and use the text editing features.

In (any) app -- I type the text, I press a [hotkey] and use the Vi's text editing features; including macros.

This way programs dealing with text [word processors, IDE, etc..] can be simplified and also faster for the user, as we're dealing with a (pseudo) Common User Access... In windows I liked the software called AutoHotkey, this concept would do a similiar job...

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