Os 3.2 development preview

[treqie]

Maybe it's been said, but a couple (nitpicking) things I'd like in amigaos is improvements to an ordinary file/drawer window. If I open up a partition and then open a drawer.. to have an option to use that same window instead of opening a new window - like dopus magellan does, I think? Or to have the scrollbars visible only when there's files outside the visible window area. Just takes up unnecessary space. :p

[treqie]

DOpus Magellan supports both spatial and browser modes, Workbench is only spatial, but you can configure a qualifier key to hold which makes parent window close as you open a drawer.

Ah, that's something at least. But it would be nice if it was like a.. more native work-within-one-window? Maybe it's a hassle to change stuff like that.  A button the window to enable it! Or an option in the window-menu, "Use browser mode". Oh well. :p
I guess what I mean is, there's a lot of "smaller things" that can be improved for user experience in handling files in workbench, visually and in functionality.. I mean if you are gonna handle larger amounts of files, you use dopus, filemaster or something instead. At least I do.

[treqie]

Again, I don't agree. I believe "do not change the layout if not necessary" is a better option than "do change it, even if the user may or may not need the elements, but we do not know". This is called "the principle of least surprise" - don't mess with the GUI unless triggered externally. Window resizing etc. is requesting a change anyhow, so it does make sense there to perform a re-layout.

I guess what I meant was, you always look for ways to optimize your setup.. like having less things that takes up the screen, however small they may be. Or saving a nanosecond of things the system has to draw for the UI, bytes of ram to here and there, if it even does :p Nevermind, probably a ton of things more important. :p