Re: [ros-general] Ok guys...

[Eric Kohl]

"Richard Campbell" <eek2121(a)comcast.net> wrote:

>   1)  Too many 'ways' to browse a users
> computer.  You have all those
>  buttons at the toolbar, why not just make those features into shell
>  extensions or at the very LEAST compiletime options.  Explorer needs
>  only 1 way to browse directories/files.  (Which should be whichever way
>  that closely resembles microsoft's windows, and by all means winefile
>  and explorer should be seperate applications.)  Among the features that
>  need to go are:  The web support, Registry browser, NT Object File
>  System or whatever the hell it's called, The 'shell browser' or whatever
>  it is, The little bar above the Status bar should go.  The Interface
>  shouldn't be MDI, as microsoft's is not. 
I absolutely agree with you. Registry and object tree do _not_ belong into
the hands of the average user.


>   2)  The toolbar has nothing useful.  The windows
> explorer toolbar has
>  back, forward, and up buttons for example, to browse the users
>  computer.  Our explorer has none of these. 
IMO, back, forward and up buttons should be implemented because they provide
useful features.


>   3)  The web support needs to go.  I don't know
> what all was done, but
>  web support causes alot of potential vulnerabilities.  Just look at
>  microsoft's windows, and even IF it didn't, loading IE/mozilla every
>  time explorer starts is a WASTE. 
Yep!!


>   Solution:  I really think we should clone the Windows
> NT 4.0 explorer,
>  with quicklaunch, but nothing more.  Make everything else addins or
>  compiletime options.  The interface really should be more similar to the
>  windows version of explorer, with nothing new to confuse users, etc.
>  This will make explorer less buggy and faster, it will also consume less
>  RAM.  Currently explorer is even slower then microsoft's own explorer.
>  Granted it is an alpha version, but still, these 'new features' are
>  still getting injected every once and a while, making things even worse,
>  when time/energy would be better spent working on shell32 or fixing
>  bugs/optimizing explorer and code cleanup. 
Agreed!


Regards,
Eric