Classic Mode
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:45 am
Guys, I have a tough question to discuss.
Lack of some important UI features (like scrolls availability, independence of cursor position with scroll position, clickable column headers, clickable path line, thumbnails mode, accessibility etc etc - myriads of the them actually ) is becoming a major headache of mine.
That's because at the moment I've kinda stuck here with a custom written UI drawing/input handling. (mentioned in two topics already: http://magnumbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=137 and http://magnumbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=88).
That was entertaining to write it 3 years ago, and I still believe that NC provides nearly fastest UI possible in terms of performance (especially in Classic Mode - I even wrote own routines to draw monospaced text there), mostly thanks to my previous game development experience
So I have thoughts to pull the trigger, drop a handwritten UI and move to stock macOS controls there.
Surely, this will hit performance efficiency, but I think I can make it run smooth (not sure about directories with a 1,000,000 entries - as NC can handle currently, but nonetheless).
The problem is with Classic Mode - there's no way to make regular macOS controls to look like classic TUI (Norton, Volkov, FAR etc) and maintaining of two completely separate branches of UI would be a very heavy burden for me.
So I want to ask - is presence of Classic Mode in Nimble Commander crucial for you?
Current usage statistics shows that 10-20% of NC users prefer Classic Mode and simply dropping it is not fair.
Will gladly hear any opinion on this situation.
Thanks, Mike.
Lack of some important UI features (like scrolls availability, independence of cursor position with scroll position, clickable column headers, clickable path line, thumbnails mode, accessibility etc etc - myriads of the them actually ) is becoming a major headache of mine.
That's because at the moment I've kinda stuck here with a custom written UI drawing/input handling. (mentioned in two topics already: http://magnumbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=137 and http://magnumbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=88).
That was entertaining to write it 3 years ago, and I still believe that NC provides nearly fastest UI possible in terms of performance (especially in Classic Mode - I even wrote own routines to draw monospaced text there), mostly thanks to my previous game development experience
So I have thoughts to pull the trigger, drop a handwritten UI and move to stock macOS controls there.
Surely, this will hit performance efficiency, but I think I can make it run smooth (not sure about directories with a 1,000,000 entries - as NC can handle currently, but nonetheless).
The problem is with Classic Mode - there's no way to make regular macOS controls to look like classic TUI (Norton, Volkov, FAR etc) and maintaining of two completely separate branches of UI would be a very heavy burden for me.
So I want to ask - is presence of Classic Mode in Nimble Commander crucial for you?
Current usage statistics shows that 10-20% of NC users prefer Classic Mode and simply dropping it is not fair.
Will gladly hear any opinion on this situation.
Thanks, Mike.