Re: NSSavePanel - Visited files fontification (patch)

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi Nicola,

On 2002-09-27 01:25:00 +0200 Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> Stefan,
>
> I quite like the idea! :-) brilliant - taken from web browsers I guess -

Actually I did not thought of a web browser when I wrote it, I thought of me 
lost in the dark directory forest looking for the right path :-)
> so yes I'd like to apply your patch ... but I have an obvious suggestion -
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Attached is an experimental patch for NSSavePanel/NSOpenPanel to fontify 
> > visited files in those panels. This fontification is good for
> > better orientation and faster location of files.
> >
> > If you choose a file (by pressing the OK button) in the panel, the file is 
> > remembered. Next time you open one of these two panels, each
> > component of the path to that file will be written in bold font. The
> > behaviour can be enabled using defaults:
> >
> > defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFontifyVisitedFiles YES
> >
> > Count of files remembered per directory is stored in NSVisitedFilesCount 
> > (default is 3).
>
> What about instead storing, say, the last 50 [number configurable] visited
> files in a single global list ?
>
> You might well have a very big messy directory (for example, my home
> directory) where you have more than 3 files that you open often, and still
> you don't want the list to grow too big.
>
> Also, storing on a per directory basis has the risk that as time passes,
> your gnustep defaults will be clobbered by lots of visited files for
> directories which no longer exists :-)
>
> If we keep a single big list of, say, 50 paths, then we are sure the space
> the `visited files cache' takes up in the gnustep defaults is limited.
>
> I'd prefer it.

Not a bad idea, I think, we should agree on that.

Have a nice day,

Stefan