Granularity

[David Miller]

On 10/22/02 12:28 PM +1000, Bradley Baetz wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, David Miller wrote:
>
>> There was a bug somewhere (I forget the number) about merging products and
>> components and making components have children.  Everything would be at the
>> component level (because that's all there is) but children would inherit,
>> unless the child overrides it.  This would let you set it at whatever
>> granularity you wanted. :)
>>
>
> Yeah, thats nice in theory, and makes some DB stuff nicer, but in practice
> the UI for infinite levels is likely to be a massive pain, unfortunately.

There was one suggestion to go two or three levels in on separate controls,
then flatten everything from that point with a colon between them.  Like
the Browser product on b.m.o is already doing with DOM and XP Apps and so
forth.
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