Document Panel

[seltzdesign]

Continuing from the discussion around tabs, managing documents and seeing what’s here: Close document when closing tab - #15 by seltzdesign I want to continue the discussion around a document panel or some good way to see what is open.

This is the current way that I know of to see the documents and patches:

Thinking about this, this could be a dockable window already. I think it would be very easy to do and it would help a lot, because you could read all the names and instantly see everything that is open. It would be much better than the combination of these 2:

In this view you cannot tell which document each belongs to.

And then here you only see the documents.

Why not a window with both? SolutionExplorer and GlobalChannel browser are already quite similar in layout.

This got me thinking about using the current layout already used by the GlobalChannel browser, which I much prefer to the older SolutionExplorer for example, which looks very crammed and uses different icons.

Here is a quick mockup of how I imagine such a panel to look like.

Each document and patch would have a little x icon to close it (its just the + icon from Channel browser rotated 45 deg). It could even have the … where we could hide other functionality.

The definition patches would have the familiar 3 line icon on the front.

Middle-click on a patch should probably also close it, just like the tabs.

Filtering and sorting should probably work as well.

It could even be possible to show patch hierarchy by indenting or using the fold out pattern from the GlobalChannel browser.

Thanks for considering!