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Various bugs and comment about nightly 2729

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killerbot:
superb, tested it, works fine   :D

mdelfede:
perfect  :)

sethjackson:
Thanks mandrav. :D

Pecan:

--- Quote from: mandrav on July 12, 2006, 11:31:59 pm ---
So we 're now from 10 down to 2 mouse-clicks for a new empty file. Not bad... ;)


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Cool! Thanks

takeshimiya:

--- Quote from: mandrav on July 12, 2006, 11:31:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: SVN commit log ---* "File->New" now has a submenu with quick shortcuts to the various kinds of wizards. It also has an "empty file" entry which brings back the old way to create an empty file.

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So we 're now from 10 down to 2 mouse-clicks for a new empty file. Not bad... ;)

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Not bad, really, much better now :)

For making it more comfortable even (1 mouse-click), something that always bugged me about the "old way" was the behaviour of creating the file first.

Here are my usability thoughts:
1)
As in other editors, when you click the "New file" button, you get an "Untitled" file, you write something, and you can discard it without having to create a file. This happens a lot, and if you want to save, you usually click the Save button.
It happens to be very uncomfortable when you only want to paste a piece of text, because you need to specify where to save and then later after you're done, delete that file.

The only problem left with this new behaviour is Syntax highlighting, but as the user can do Edit->Highlighting mode (which is far less annoying than create a file and then having to delete it), it shouldn't be a problem.

2) In the new "context-menu" for new files, I suggest putting the "Empty file" at the top of the menu.

3) In the Start Here page, it says "Create a new project" and "Open a new project". Now it should say simply "Create" and "Open". :D

3) For the New from template dialog, make the dialog resizeable (as is now, I have to scroll to see all templates).

4) Create 16x16 or 20x20 icons for the templates, as in a few templates scrolling will become annoying.

5) Make the control a tree control, and include descriptions, plus the 16x16 or 20x20 icons above.
Example:


6) For the New from template dialog, make double-click work as in clicking "Go" or "Next".

That's it for now, little changes that helps a lot from an usability viewpoint. :)

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