Design of MRU-Navigation wrt. Split-Views

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 13.02.09 16:51:56, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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,

                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't understand that part of the sentence.

> But if we're talking about when doing history style navigation,

Note I'm talking solely about most-recently-used documents/views, not
about moving inside one view. The latter is already covered by the
duchain/codebrowser.

Andreas

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