In file save dialog the edited file name uses a very small font

[unfa]

Compared to the font size of the buttons, the files and directories are drawn in really small text. Could this be scaled up a bit?

Do others think this is a good idea? Maybe It's just me?

[fundamental]

The more I look at that view, the more I'm reminded about how the layout was for the file selector was quickly thrown together. A set of quick fixes to make things look more reasonable might be to:

1. Shrink enter/cancel
2. Replace enter with more appropriate text (e.g. SAVE/LOAD or something more specific than that)
3. Kill some of the dead space between the two lists
4. Shrink the relative size of the scroll bar (it's already too fat in the screenshot IMO)
5. Perhaps move favorites to the bottom right (it's non-traditional, but gives the scroll boxes a bit more vertical space
6. Shrink the size of the lists by an entry or two to proportionally scale text height up
7. Grow the main textfield in proportion to the rescaled text boxes
8. Perhaps change the textfield to be a bigger font than the scroll box fields as it's quite important

other notes - the left margin was designed to line up with the end of the sidebar in an attempt to make it look like it fit. I don't know if that helps or hinders things. It might make more sense to create a traditional 'grid of files/folders' rather than the current dual list setup (in part due to the standard aspect ratio), though I'd like to have a quick fix for the moment and the above fixes should make for a fair improvement until this can be revisited.

@budislav Any thoughts to add to that?

[budislav]

@fundamental Please explain me how that favorite dropdown button works? It is not working on my computer. Is that button related with scroll box on the right side?

I made redesign. It would be nice if zyn can somehow print screen the whole current activated zyn view and blur that image by 30px (I done this in photoshop with gaussian blur) and then to have black color with 46% opacity. If GUI can be blurred somehow without printing that would be better. This is the same effect iphone use for applications and iOS GUI.

If this effect is not possible black tint color should have 90% of transparency.

[fundamental]

On 01-25, Budislav wrote:

@fundamental Please explain me how that favorite dropdown button works? Users tend to have a small handful of directories that they store common settings/files for a program (e.g. $HOME/Documents/ ). The favorite dropdown is a quick way to access these locations and appears to be relatively common within file selector windows across different toolkits.

By default there are no favorites on the system. A user can add a favorite by navigating to the directory that they want to save and clicking the "add to favorites" button.

Currently there is no way to remove a favorite once added in the UI (without manually editing config files).

IIRC the currently shipped 3.0.1/3.0.2rc1 code requires the path to end with a path separator ('/' or '\') for it to be registered as a favorite directory which can be added, though the development version should have that limitation removed.

I made redesign. Thanks. It looks much better than the current placeholder implementation.

It would be nice if zyn can somehow print screen the whole current activated zyn view and blur that image by 30px (I done this in photoshop with gaussian blur) and then to have black color with 46% opacity. That should process this effect faster. At the moment I don't have any direct way of adding a blur to layers, but it should be a relatively direct process to add one. The final composition is just rendering a few opengl textures on top of each other, so I'd just need to identify how to apply a shader when rendering the texture quads.

I may end up using the 90% opacity temporarily though as I'm unsure how much time learning about opengl shaders will take.

[budislav]

@fundamental thank you for explanation, it's working. I needed to change my system keyboard to find '\ ' because on mine there is only '/'. So I think it should look like this

This design also gives me idea how "settings" and "about" should look like :) It would be great if you find a way to make this blur effect. It looks minimalist and futuristic so I think users would like this.

@unfa do you like new design?

[unfa]

@budislav yes, I think it looks fantastic!