> Places like home, computer and network are easily reached from menus > in the nautilus window and the panels. I'd also like to re-introduce > the favorites system as a way to quickly reach commonly used > places. Favorites is more important in a spatial system, since deep > navigation is more work.>From the UI point of view, where would the "favorites" be located ?It'll just be a menu thing I think, not a location. In the panel menusand in the nautilus window menus.
Well favorites shouldn't be available from the spacial nautilus window for the same reason bookmarks are not. In addition why not use a folder interface for managing "favorites"? Nearly every bookmarks implementation I've seen (the exception to some degree is epiphany) reimplements the file manager in its bookmarks editor. Beyond this I think it would be good to work with marco to develop a gnome-wide desktop bookmark implmentation so that you can access all your bookmarks (file, folder, web pages, a bookmark is a bookmark is a bookmark) from one place using one implementation instead of creating yet another interface.[1] dave [1]http://www.advogato.org/person/funrecords/diary.html?start=10 has some ideas on a desktop bookmarks ui.