Design of MRU-Navigation wrt. Split-Views

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 13 February 2009 16:32:38 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 13.02.09 15:27:16, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Friday 13 February 2009 03:55:57 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been thinking about how I should design the MRU-Navigatin and so
> > > far I've got a pretty good idea how this will work with 1 active view
> > > and even with multiple mainwindows. The only thing I'm not sure about
> > > is: How to do multiple active views in the same Mainwindow.
> > >
> > > I think the "right thing" would be to keep a list of most-recently-used
> > > documents per split-view. So if I've opened foo, bar, boo and then
> > > split on boo and open baz in the new splitview I'd have two lists, one
> > > with foo,bar,boo the other with boo,baz. And depending on which of the
> > > two split-view's is currently active one walks through one or the
> > > other.
> > >
> > > For those who actually use split-view (I don't currently): Would that
> > > work?
> > >
> > > Or should both lists be visible at the same time and while switching
> > > through the list I'll draw an outline around the view thats beeing
> > > activated?
> >
> > The lists need to be separated once a view is split off.
>
> Technically, yes of course. The question is about whats visible. Having
> the list of all splitted views visible would make it easy to switch to a
> different splitted view.
>
> Andreas

I'd like to see the feature that makes both lists visible at the same time and 
shows which one your switching to for the menu, just so I could see how it 
works in practice.

But if we're talking about when doing history style navigation, I would expect 
that only the currently active view from the split comes into play in that 
situation.
--
Matt