Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

> There used to be a KDE menu for the filesystem hierarchy that was fun to
> play with, because you could easily get huge numbers of items in a
> single menu, or a zillion levels of submenu. You'd run out of screen
> space on the right, then submenus start appearing to the left, then you
> get back to the left side, then start going right again... pretty good
> torture test for the menu code anyhow to make a huge zigzag all over the
> screen ;-)

Yup.  That's what I mentioned on my previous email. The KDE implementation 
didn't feel right. Under BeOS, it is very elegant though, but that has 
mostly to do with the fact that BeOS users almost never mess up with the 
system folders, and their home folder is very clean (usually no more than 
10-20 items, including hidden items), resulting in much fewer menu items and 
screens. For this to work adequately in Unix, fundamental things have to 
change first, and of course, they won't.

Eugenia