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Bug 408179

Summary:	[sidebar] Parent folder should be visible in initial state of sidebar navigator
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Mike_Wilson
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald

2013-05-15 17:14:19 EDT

1. From the Orion navigator, click on some file to open it in the Orion editor page.
2. You end up with an editor on the right-hand side of the page, and a mini navigator on the left-hand side. 

The mini navigator is rooted at the parent folder of the file being edited, so its sibling files are visible there.

It might be more intuitive if we instead showed the grandparent folder of the file being edited, and the parent folder was expanded in-place. (This would be equivalent to immediately using the "Go Up" command in the sidebar after landing at the editor page)

This would provide you with more context, and allow you to target the parent folder with commands like Rename, Git stuff, etc. Could potentially make the sidebar nav state less confusing.

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2013-05-29 23:04:00 EDT

WONTFIX. Hopefully the ability to perform commands on the root folder of the navigator (see bug 408372) will address the underlying problem here.