Re: Why Detail View AND Groups and Files?
Re: Why Detail View AND Groups and Files?
- Subject: Re: Why Detail View AND Groups and Files?
- From: leenoori <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:15:29 +0100
El 14/12/2006, a las 15:38, M. Uli Kusterer escribió:
just curious: What's the rationale behind having both a "Groups
and Files" view and a "Detail View"? I personally would have
designed these two lists to be unified in one. What advantages do I
have with the current design, and how do the people here take
advantage of that?
Most of the time I use Groups and Files. With all of my stuff
hierarchically organized into subgroups I can generally focus on all
the files related to a single task. I can also split that view into
two if I want to focus on two tasks and the listing is too long for
everything to fit in without scrolling.
On the other hand, I use the Detail view when I need to quickly find
something by typing its name in the search box, or need to filter by
a certain file type. This later task is easily done because you can
type file name extensions ".pch" for example, and/or choose the sort
column and direction. Once you've zeroed in on the subset of files
you want to work with you can easily edit them and move foward and
back using the keys for "Next Detail" and "Previous Detail".
So in practice, for me, 95% of the time the Detail view is collapsed
and out of sight, but I jump into it when necessary (conveniently
bound to Command-Option-F, you can reveal the detail view and jump to
the search field in one hit). Alternatively, you can toggle it
without jumping to the find field by hitting the key binding for
"Zoom Editor Out" (Command+Shift+E here).
There are also some things you can do in the Detail view which you
just can't easily do anywhere else. For example, changing the "Role"
of a file in a target, or seeing all of the files in a target at once.
At first I too found it to be a bit redundant, but the truth is that
each view has advantages for specific tasks. And I notice that the
more files in a project, the more useful the Detail view becomes
because of it's filtering/searching capabilities. I find it much more
useful than "Smart Groups", for example.
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