App Browser versus Project Browser

[Mark Waddingham]

As an indication of community division it might be useful - app browser/project browser/indifferent.

However, I'm not sure a poll would give us the information we need as it is too binary.

It's not about preference as such it's about having a component which serves everyone's needs.

The reality is that the app browser is old code wise and doesn't sit on the new abstractions we are building to make the components in the IDE more robust and easier to adapt and evolve.

We could certainly look at rewriting it on top of those abstractions - however, it seems sensible to find out if there is some sort of AppProjBrowser we could build first before considering such an undertaking.

Mark

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> On 7 Oct 2015, at 19:54, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
> What about making a poll?
> 
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> Op 10/7/2015 om 20:43 schreef Mark Waddingham:
>> Seriously, no need to feel hot about the collar :)
>> 
>> There are definitely people who do not like the project browser - that is clear.
>> 
>> I'd also suggest that there are people who don't like the application browser.
>> 
>> So - let us assume that it costs a good deal of time to maintain both and thus having one such thing would be preferable...
>> 
>> Is there a compromise in design which can be come to that satisfies most?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On 7 Oct 2015, at 19:31, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 07/10/15 21:22, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-10-07 20:08, Richmond wrote:
>>>>> Well, it seems that the "people" are speaking with one voice over here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25503
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, as an experiment in participatory democracy, and whether
>>>>> RunRev/LiveCode REALLY listen
>>>>> to their installed customer base, Please go there and give your opinion.
>>>> If by the 'people' you mean yourself, one other person and another who said he doesn't even use the application browser (and hasn't for years) ;)
>>> And Jacque Landman Gay.
>>> 
>>>> To be fair, whilst preference *might* be an interesting thing to gauge... Far more useful would be constructive criticism of both the Project Browser and the Application Browser. It does seem a little 'silly' to maintain two things which serve essentially the same purpose - so Ali's idea is perhaps the best way forward - what is it that is good and bad about both and is it possible to design something which everybody would be happy with?
>>> I wonder what the design team in Edinburgh feel is intrinsically wrong with the App Browser.
>>>> Warmest Regards,
>>> Umm . . . feeling a bit hot round the collar.
>>> 
>>>> Mark.
>>> R.
>>> 
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