All this desktop/panel talk got me thinking about browsing files, go figure. Right now in GNOME under spatial mode, it's a pain to get to a given folder that's several layers deep. You have to double-click through folder after folder. Double-middle-clicking on a folder closes each folder as you pass through it, which at least cleans up the windows you don't care about... but you do the same amount of clicking. Tedium. The BeOS Tracker solved this problem elegantly several years back. The first option on every folder's context menu was a menu item that allowed you to drill down through the hierarchy below the selected folder. Clicking on any folder in the resulting menu opened a spatial window targeting that folder. This might sound clunky to the uninitiated, but it worked spectacularly and was a damned sight cleaner and much more natural-feeling than GNOME's middle-clickfest. Under BeOS you could also right click the desktop and drill down through folders on the desktop, using the same system. Also, files were shown in the hierarchy of menus - if you knew there was a file in a folder 2 levels down, you didn't need to click through 2 windows to get to it! What are people's thoughts on this? IMO, this simple improvement could improve the GNOME spatial experience immensely. It might even boost spatial mode's popularity with the fanatical "Browser mode" sect. -- Gabriel Bauman <gabe bravenet com> Senior Software Developer Bravenet Web Services Inc.
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