Re: GWorkspace.app Feature Request-- Tabbed Shelf

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Nicolas,

this doesn't sound like an evil hack, rather like a very nice idea that 
should make it into NSWorkspace. Please clean up that code and commit it.

Fred

Nicolas Roard wrote:
> On 2003-06-23 21:50:52 +0000 Eric Christopherson <rakko@charter.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> >
> > > On 2003-06-22 23:45:55 +0000 Enrico Sersale <enrico@dtedu.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Two question: in the screenshot there is a file viewer that uses a 
> > > > browser >with icons in the matrix cells; is it my browser with 
> > > > "styleMask |= >GWIconCellsMask" or something else? And I see that 
> > > > you have icons of .jpg >files that show a preview of the image. How 
> > > > do you get this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Well that was a small hack on NSApplication, to return a cached 
> > > thumbnail
> > > (same principle as .xvpics) instead of the standard icon if it 
> > > existed. I'm not
> > > sure it was better to modify NSApplication instead of only GWorkspace 
> > > icon view...
> > > there was an advantage though, the image was shown everywhere (i.e, 
> > > dnd the
> > > image on the panel show the image on the panel, which is quite cool).
> > > The idea was to have a service to generate thoses cached thumbnails, 
> > > or perhaps
> > > modifying GWorkspace to do that automatically, but I didn't had the 
> > > time... so... :-)
> >
> >
> > Cool stuff! What about the icons in browser view? Did you hack that as 
> > well?
>
>
> Well no, the interesst off that approach is that it was automatic, as 
> the GW's browser
> view call iconForFile of NSWorkspace (hm ? toh ! please 
> s/NSApplication/NSWorkspace in my previous mail). As my panel just call 
> iconForFile too, a modification of NSWorkspace
> bring the thumbnail for every application.