Re: GUI without X11 / Artist Help

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-02-08 18:18:08 +0200 jesse@jesseross.com wrote:

> > On Feb 8, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Jesse Ross wrote:
> > > Also, I'd be interested in helping the project out graphically -- I
> > > know that Jasper is already working on the icons, but I did a few
> > > comps of the required icons to show you the quality and style of my
> > > work (Keep in mind, these were done over two days, so the smaller
> > > icons aren't fully cleaned up yet).
> > > http://www.jesseross.com/clients/icons/
> >
> > I really like the concept you have there of having the folders show
> > approximately how many documents are in them by their size.  It
> > leverages the prevailing metaphor in a completely intuitive way to add
> > really useful information to the interface.
> >
> > But this needs software support.  How hard would it be to add to
> > GWorkspace?  I guess it would require some extra directory scanning,
> > which might be annoying if done in the foreground...

Well, it could be done in other threads; the "Empty Folder" could be used as 
default icon while waiting for the contents count. But there are other problems (see 
below).

> Yeah -- I wasn't sure exactly how this would be done. It just seemed like
> a feature no file manager has implemented that would really improve
> user-experience. Perhaps the maintainer of GWorkspace could give some
> insight into the viability of incorporating this feature or something
> similar.

The problem is that GWorkspace provides, directly, only two icons: the icon for the 
"open" folder - shown when something is dragged on a folder - and the disk 
icon. All the others come from -gui, through the NSWorkspace class.
This means that there are only two solutions:
1) GWorkspace reimplements the NSWorkspace class.
2) (better) NSWorkspace is reimplemented in a framework (IconKit?) and 
GWorkspace and all the apps that need can use it.