Nautilus split side pane patch

[Daren Robbins <dcr nextw3 com>]

Here is a patch to provide a split side pane, for anyone who might be interested: http://www.nextw3.com/programming/2.22.4-splitsidepane-patch

This is based on the (currently 2.22.4) http://svn.gnome.org/svn/nautilus/branches/gnome-2-22/ source.

FYI, the bottom splitter panel should default to collapsed, and you'll need to drag it up or click on it to expand it. 

FYI2, this patch will also reverse the order of the items in the Places sidebar so bookmarks are at the top and built-in places at the bottom.

Screen shot: http://www.nextw3.com/programming/Nautilus-SplitSidebar.png

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 00:22 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> Interesting idea, although right now I'd personally like to see us  
> trying to simplify the sidebar rather than making it any more  
> complex :)  (Step 0: find out how many of the existing sidebar views  
> people *really* use...  figure out if the tree view really still  
> useful since the Mac-style list view was introduced a while ago...  
> etc...)

My 2c is that the right-pane tree gets a bit unwieldy after expanding more than a few nodes. I use it all the time, but I also find myself swapping between "Places" and "Tree" quite frequently as the former is my preference but the latter is useful to get into the general vicinity of a deeply buried file. I do see how the split sidebar adds to interface clutter, though - mostly I think due to the second bulky sidebar title box... 

As a side note, I imagine some interesting uses for this real estate in the way of sidebar provider extensions (e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NautilusSidebarExtensions) become more compelling if they don't require giving up the "main" ones.