lukescammell wrote:1. Catalogue docking
As mentioned previously, the ability to dock the catalogue in different places (eg the RHS of the screen) is really over due seeing as how it's so amazing and vitally important to us all
That's not sarcasm, it realy is - I'd be lost without it now!
I don't think you'll ever get "docking", as in drag it around and dock it whereever you want. Sounds like a lot of work to do, and I don't think it would be that useful anyways.
That said, I wouldn't use it personally, but having the Catalog "separated" from the Tree, so you can hade one but not the other, could be useful for some, such as having the Catalog on the right.
That's not for me, cause I try to use all the space I have at best, and I don't to get a thrid "column" (after Tree & List) when I can do otherwise. But I won't vote against it
lukescammell wrote:2. Catalogue per profile
I would really like to have more than one catalogue and the ability to assign a catalogue to a profile (.ini). I have different files/folders/programs that I access on different machines, so this would really help a lot.
That could be nice indeed; but it should probably be true for everything then: Catalog, Servers, CKS...
Actually, to deal with this more "easilly", might be to let the user save its Catalog/CKS/etc with giving it a name, so calling it "my CKS" could save it to "cks.my CKS.dat" for example, and add into the INI a setting to know which Catalog/CKS/etc to load/use, eg; CKS=my CKS
That way you can have a Catalog, CKS config, etc per profile, but also load them up as you wish!
lukescammell wrote:3. Auto-loading profiles
Taking this further, I would like the option to have profiles automatically load depending on the computer you are using.
You know, I think you can already do that, in a way, and that's how itr should be done: you have different profile, then create yourself some "launcher" that will load up XY with the appropriate config.
You can probably do it using "File/Configuration File/Create Shortcut to this Configuration...", but I don't know how shortcut behaves when it comes to portability.
What I mean is, if your drive holding XY changes letter, does the shortcut still work, or (would get my vote) panics & screams?
If so, then use simple good old BAT files, eg. create a "XY-home.bat" that will launch XY with Home.ini, do the same for Work, and you're set.
Sure, you have to click on the good one depending what machine you're on, but I don't think it should/could be anyother way (I mean, how XY should recognize a machine anyways, really? And what if you don't want him to?...)
lukescammell wrote:4. Autosizing tree view
How about an option to autosize the tree view?
Basically, it would allow you to never have a scroll bar at the bottom of the tree view as it would automatically stay as small as pssible. May even be worth having a min/max-width with this as well?
Well, I (almost) never have a Hscrollbar on my Tree, and never on my List either for that matter.
I know i would hate such a thing, but I hear some uses the autosize columns feature, which is the same kind of insanity to me
