[oXygen-user] The New File->New Dialog Not Cutting It

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Eliot,

Give it a try a few more days and then let us know if you still have 
problems.
Please note that the entries in the "Recently used" list have a "Remove" 
contextual menu action that allows to remove from that list templates 
that you no longer use and/or do not want to show there anymore.

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 9/20/10 5:01 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> The fact that the dialog remembers where it was last opened to and includes
> recently used templates in the recently used list I think makes it more
> usable than I originally thought.
>
> That is, having used filtering to find where I want to be, I don't have to
> repeat it for subsequent File->New actions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
> On 9/20/10 8:54 AM, "George Cristian Bina"<>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Eliot,
>>
>> We can add a flat mode / tree mode switch.
>> The tree mode will be the actual mode. The flat mode will still present
>> the Recent, Global, Frameworks/[framework] structure but will not go
>> deeper that that. The files will be presented with their name and with
>> the eventual folder location as suffix. What do you think of this approach?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
>> --
>> George Cristian Bina
>> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> On 9/20/10 4:33 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>> On 9/20/10 8:29 AM, "George Cristian Bina"<>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Eliot,
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried the filtering support? If you type for example D4P in the
>>>> filter box (that has the initial focus) then you should be able to see
>>>> exactly your DITA for Publishers templates, no matter where they were
>>>> placed. Please try this and let us know if it is of any help.
>>>
>>> That definitely does get me to the templates, but it does require typing
>>> that wasn't required before.
>>>
>>> But I can't think off the top of my head of a way to avoid the need for
>>> typing, short of making the Global Templates list flat (that is, not reflect
>>> containing directories).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> George
>>>> --
>>>> George Cristian Bina
>>>> <oXygen/>   XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>>>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>>>
>>>> On 9/17/10 5:56 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>>>> I'm finding the new File->New dialog to be must less convenient than the
>>>>> old
>>>>> one.
>>>>>
>>>>> One issue I have is that I have many different "templates" directories. I
>>>>> carefully name my template documents so they sort together, e.g, "D4P -
>>>>> Chapter.dita", "D4P - Article.dita", etc. That works really well in the
>>>>> flat
>>>>> list of templates. I tend to organize my templates by type within a
>>>>> containing directory named "templates": templates/topics, templates/maps,
>>>>> templates/word, templates/indesign, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> In Oxygen 11 I could point to the ancestor templates directory and
>>>>> everything just worked. Very convenient.
>>>>>
>>>>> But in the new system, each containing directory is reflected in the New
>>>>> File tree, so I get a lot of "templates" entries under the Global Templates
>>>>> item, with no way to distinguish which project a given templates directory
>>>>> is for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Short of bringing back the old dialog, I think an easy fix would be to make
>>>>> Global Templates a flat list like the old dialog.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise I can't think of any easy change that would make the new dialog
>>>>> behave usefully with the way I currently have my templates organized.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the nice aspects of the old template mechanism was it meant that I
>>>>> didn't have to have a templates/ directory that was designed specifically
>>>>> for Oxygen, since the use of Oxygen is as much for my own convenience as it
>>>>> is for my clients.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is, I want my "templates" directory to be the holder for any kind of
>>>>> template for any tool or purpose for which templates is useful, not a
>>>>> specific "Oxygen templates" directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> E.
>>>>>
>>>
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