Is pyzo's file browser a good idea?

[Edward K. Ream]

Leo almost certainly is going to offer pyzo's file browser dock as part of the pyzo-in-leo project. However, when I awoke this morning I saw several reasons why I wouldn't recommend that people use this dock.

1. It takes a large amount of real estate on the screen. Enhancing Leo's existing open-file dialog likely makes more sense for most users.

2. Pyzo's file browser allows people to create and destroy files and directories. Imo, it would be more Leonine to create normal leo commands create and destroy files and directories.

3. There is a ui mistake in the file browser dock.  You can only insert/delete files/directories if the star is highlighted.

Summary

We never argue about preferences, but I have just created two new issues suggesting that pyzo's file browser will have limited appeal for most Leonistas:

#1283: Improve Leo's existing file browser dialog.

#1284: Add commands to create & destroy files and directories.

Edward