Re: Mega patch to make spatial nautilus rock!

[Christian Schneider <c schneider scram de>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:24, Christian Schneider wrote:
>  
>
> > Frank Lynch wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi Philip,
> > > Please accept my apologies - it was a bad choice of words. 
> > >
> > > FWIW - I have been using browser mode for a long time, and I havn't been
> > > able to use spatial nautilus (because I work with some rather deep
> > > directory structures) without Jamie's patch. So I was a browser bigot
> > > myself! The spatial concept grew on me slowly, but I couldn't make the
> > > leap without Jamie's patch. IMO this patch is the meeting of the browser
> > > and spatial worlds. There is still room for improvement, but I feel that
> > > its a lot better than anything I've ever used for file management.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > I would be interested in how you will set up the mouse buttons in 
> > nautilus with the new settings.
> >
> > Left click open a new spatial window and middle click open in same window?
> >    
>
> I would recommend :
>
> Left click - open in same window
> Middle click - open in new window
>
>  
I would probably choose:

left: open in new window, close old
middle: open i new window

But this is of course everyone´s own choice.

> Mac OS/X does it this way and its more consistent with the file selector
> that way too. Its also good for newbies coming over from Windows.
>
> As it wont be in 2.8 or even in Nautilus CVS as such I will create and
> maintain a new app called Nautilus Plus (its just Nautilus plus my
> patches on top - not a fork!) so everyone that wants a really cool state
> of the art file manager gets one (as opposed to the "politically
> correct" Nautilus you currently get).
>  
That is very nice.

I would like to test your patches. Will you offer binaries and perhaps 
even rpms? If you need someone to test and maintain fedora core rpms I 
could do that.

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Christian Schneider