I must be out of the mainstream :-) [LWN.net]

I must be out of the mainstream :-)

Posted Aug 12, 2010 7:51 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: I must be out of the mainstream :-) by felixfix
Parent article: GUADEC: Owen Taylor on GNOME Shell

> All these desktop plans, talk of "recent documents", application groups ...

Recent documents can be very nice even if you are just working on a large software project with lots of files in it.

(Log in to post comments)

I must be out of the mainstream :-)

Posted Aug 12, 2010 17:20 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

I use a single gvim instance to open files in the software project - and actually don't close them, so I just type :b <part-of-filename> followed by TAB and I instantly got to the file. I don't think that the desktop environment should have anything to do with it...

I must be out of the mainstream :-)

Posted Aug 12, 2010 19:42 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> I use a single gvim instance to open files in the software project - and actually don't close them, so I just type :b <part-of-filename> followed by TAB and I instantly got to the file. I don't think that the desktop environment should have anything to do with it...

But to my mind using "recent documents" for the purpose does fit in well with the "one tool for one job" principle. That doesn't necessarily mean the "recent documents" implementation in GNOME 2 of course - perhaps the one in GNOME 3? I would also not mind sufficiently good document/window/application management that we could dispense with the MDI/tabbed window orgy that is currently fashionable - it seems to me that that definitely is the job of something in the desktop environment (window manager, task manager, whatever).

I'm just not so sure if GNOME 3/GNOME Shell as such fits in so well with the "one tool for one job" thing though.