Notes on the new FOSA

I talked with Seth for a while on the new File Selector for GTK and I think we had some good conclusions.

The path finder needs to shrink some, we're thinking of removing the items that are to the left of $HOME. The items are statistically used less so they will be only taking up extra space as well as constantly being in vision but having no real meaning to the user. Outside of the $HOME directory it is reasonable to have the full path appear as normal.

Seth and I didn't get to this one, but I believe it was discussed on the fury of messages on the usability list about the FOSA the path finder should keep the full tree path as long as the user doesn't go down a different branch. So if you go into first/second/third and then use the path finder to go back to first/ the second/third/ directories remain until you diverge on a different path.

Grading

I'm grading right now, which is something I really despise doing. If these undergrads were so good, their homeworks would come pre-graded and I could just approve or disapprove the grades. :-)

Thesis

I'll be done the grading for this locking homework tonight, which gives me tomorrow, the weekend and next week to work on my thesis! I should fix up the next assignment for OpSys somewhere in there, but I really want to crank on my thesis for a while.

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