[squeak-dev] Things to improve in 5.3

Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel at hpi.de
Wed Sep 18 09:56:55 UTC 2019


I think Edgar was referring to FileList:


Best,
Marcel
Am 18.09.2019 11:13:01 schrieb H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
Hi Marcel and Edgar.

Thank you Marcel for the updates to the File save dialog.

An update to Squeak5.3alpha-18937 is necessary to see the result.

@Edgar: What do you think?

Regards
Hannes

On 9/18/19, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
>
> there are grips to change size manually:
>
>
> I think it is too big for a dialog. At the moment, the implementation falls
> back to Model >> #initialExtent, which does already consider the current
> screen real-estate.
>
> Also, there seems to be something odd with the list of files' width. It's
> too wide.
>
> A horizontal scrollbar in the directory tree might also help. :-)
>
> Best,
> Marcel
> Am 17.09.2019 20:00:18 schrieb H. Hirzel :
> Maybe a larger default width for the directory display?
> As a preference? Or dependant on the screen size?
>
> On 9/17/19, H. Hirzel wrote:
>> The question is what can still be done for 5.3 and what has to wait for
>> 5.4.
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>> On 9/17/19, Tobias Pape wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 17.09.2019, at 19:28, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 2019-09-17, at 3:08 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Some to improve is FileList .
>>>>> In the left panel menu we should have choices to see directories as
>>>>> date,name,size like we have in the right panel for files
>>>>
>>>> Other file list related improvements might involve fixing the remote
>>>> directories stuff; a couple of years ago I pointed out that the
>>>> ServerDirectory & FTP classes weren't in good operating condition, not
>>>> to
>>>> mention that the exemplar server was the very dead st.cs.uiuc.edu.
>>>>
>>>> FTP isn't really a lot of use these days but surely somebody would
>>>> enjoy
>>>> making it sftp (or similar) capable?
>>>
>>> careful,sftp is ssh-based and a different beast.
>>> ftps (ie, ftp over ssl/tls) is seldom used and way slower.
>>>
>>> FTP is still used in a _lot_ of places…
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> -Tobias
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, dump that code as useless.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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