Enhancement proposal

[sindresorhus]

Inspired by #10 and #12 (check out the screenshot), here's a braindump on how I imagine the app could work.

Feedback wanted.

+---------------+      +---------------+
|web starter kit+------+Open project   |
+---------------+      +---------------+
|default        |      |awesome website|
|clean          |      |some app       |
|serve          |      +---------------+
+---------------+      |Clear          |
|✓ Follow Finder|      +---------------+
+---------------+                       
|Quit           |                       
+---------------+                       

Follow Finder is only visible on OSX/Win. It's checked by default and will follow the current folder in Finder/Explorer.

Question: Should Follow Finder add projects to Recent Projects?
Question2: Better name than Follow Finder?

You can also manually select a project with Open project. When opened it will be added to Recent projects. When a project is selected with either of these methods, Follow Finder will be unchecked.

Drag/drop on the tray icon to set the active project would also be nice.

What do you think? Anything unclear?

@FWeinb @cognitom @aaronogle @stevelacy @addyosmani @passy @stephenplusplus

[stephenlacy]

I like the Open project as it lets me continue to navigate several open file navigator windows without changing the project.
Dragging sounds nice as well, I assume you would be dragging the gulpfile onto the icon?

[sindresorhus]

I assume you would be dragging the gulpfile onto the icon?

Gulpfile or folder

[cognitom]

👍

Question: Should Follow Finder add projects to Recent Projects?

I don't think so.

Question2: Better name than Follow Finder?

"Follow Finder" seems nice. Just another idea below. It would be nice that we can choose "Active Finder"(default) or one of other bookmarked projects. Star mark means a "bookmark" button.

+---------------+      +------------------+
|web starter kit+------+  Active Finder ★ |
+---------------+      +------------------+
|default        |      |✓ web starter kit |
|clean          |      |  awesome website |
|serve          |      |  some app        |
+---------------+      +------------------+
|Quit           |      |Open project      |
+---------------+      +------------------+
                       |Clear             |
                       +------------------+

[FWeinb]

Drag/drop on the tray icon to set the active project would also be nice.

We should open an issue on atom-shell to ask for this feature.

Question2: Better name than Follow Finder?

I really like the idea of @cognitom with the Active Finder option.

Question: Should Follow Finder add projects to Recent Projects?

Yup, can come in handy.

[sindresorhus]

@cognitom it's not clear to me how your "Active Finder" is different from "Follow Finder", other than the name and placement? :)

[cognitom]

@sindresorhus Basically same :)
I think "Active" (or Activated) is more familiar than "Follow" in this situation. But if we use the word "Active", the menu item should be put in the same level of other bookmarked projects.

[sindresorhus]

@cognitom Good thinking. I like it :)

[sindresorhus]

Alright, I'm going with @cognitom proposal.

Would anyone like to work on this? If not, I'll probably get to it in a couple of weeks :)

[cognitom]

@sindresorhus Sounds great!
I'm catching up about atom-shell and I'd like to help you.

And I've got a chance to write a series of articles about gulp on media in Japan. It seems nice to introduce gulp-app in it :)

[sindresorhus]

I'm catching up about atom-shell and I'd like to help you.

That's awesome :) Ping me if you have any questions.

And I've got a chance to write a series of articles about gulp on media in Japan. It seems nice to introduce gulp-app in it :)

Yeah, I think so too. Let me know if you need feedback.

[sindresorhus]

@cognitom Still interested?

[lucasmotta]

I like the "Follow Finder" name and I don't think it needs a new name. But I don't think that a project should be added automagically without my input. And the drag-n-drop feature would be ace, but I don't think it's possible yet with atom-shell.

And I've one extra question/suggestion. Is it possible for my tasks to interact with the application somehow?
Let's say I get an error on my watch task, then I could notify the application to change its icon's color to red. And when a change is made successfully, the icon would change to green for 2 seconds and then back to normal. It's way better and less annoying than using the OSX Notifications (right know I play sounds to notify when something changes).

[sindresorhus]

But I don't think that a project should be added automagically without my input.

Agreed, not doing that.

And the drag-n-drop feature would be ace, but I don't think it's possible yet with atom-shell.

Would you mind opening an issue on atom-shell for that? I've already opened a bunch of tickets, so might not be as effective.

And I've one extra question/suggestion. Is it possible for my tasks to interact with the application somehow?

Open a separate issue on what you'd like and we'll definitely consider it ;)

[cognitom]

@sindresorhus Yeah, I really have! But I can't have a time soon... :'-(
Please go ahead!

[sindresorhus]

Closing as this app is now deprecated.