On 12/1/2015 12:53 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
Navigator doesn't do the Finder column view exactly
That's the blocker for me, not just in Navigator but in all the alternate control browsers I've looked at (four so far.) All the alternatives are well written and feature-rich, but they are all use either separate lists, or very long lists with indentations to indicate owners and groups. With any more than a few controls, the indentations scroll off the window and you've lost your reference point.
The alternatives all appear to be very good tools for someone who works only on their own stacks with a limited number of controls. In that case, you already know the layout and structure, and it's fine to isolate things into independent lists and groups, or indented lists which won't be so long that they require a lot of scrolling or the additional overhead of repeated filtering. (And don't get me started on the PB filtering. There is no documentation in the user guide, and I can't remember the secret syntax that even lets me isolate a control type. In the AB you can just click on a header to do that.)
But a lot of my work involves short sprints with stacks that other people have written, where I don't know the layout or the organization. Controls often have no names and use haphazard layouts. I need an overview that doesn't require a lot of clicking around and doesn't require me to memorize what objects are on what card before I can navigate accurately. In that situation, isolated lists of things don't work, you always have to know where you are on the map. I need to jump from one place to another repeatedly, and the easiest way to do that is with a hierarchical breadcrumb display.
My ideal control browser would be based on the paned column view of the App Browser with some of the additional features of the PB added. I wish the AB had been enhanced rather than rewritten as an infinite list of awkwardly accessible controls that displays less information in a larger footprint.
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