[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by jharker

I think we should probably try to continue positioning the toolbar at the bottom.

I also spent some minutes on this, but couldn't find any good reason... Why do you think so?

Originally Posted by jharker

Beyond that, I like the general concept of the icons.

Another option to clean the interface is to have submenu buttons, like the proposed in the new iPDF, so we would have 1 menu-button for edit actions, other for view, and so on.

Originally Posted by jharker

Beyond the UI, I'd like to address a lower-level question. Currrently the ContentLister administers all functions necessary to run the iLiad, and in addition it lists and opens files.

I'd prefer to split the system functions from the file management. This could make the components swappable.
Btw, is there a complete list with all the functions ContentLister does now? file management, some keys handling, power management...?
In my head, we could have different daemons listening for these events and communicating through a bus system. Kind of dbus, but much lighter.

Originally Posted by jharker

It seems to me that it might make more sense to keep the parts of the ContentLister that do system administration, and then write (or modify) an existing file manager/browser (like Nautilus) to act as the file browser on top. It might be easier to simply cut out the file-browsing code in the ContentLister and then add a new program separately... what do you think?

As I've mentioned above, imo there should be different components, loosely coupled and communicating through a bus. Obviously, this means to rewrite lot of code, but we could reuse current components and only change the api.

Originally Posted by jharker

It also raises the interesting question, is there a decent file manager out there that could be modified to suit our needs?

I thought about it before doing this mockup, but I guess that the iLiad is so special that it would be better to have an "ad hoc" file manager. Anyway, if we achieve to split system features from file management, this last part is not so complex to develop.


Thanks for your comments.