[Usability] File menu applet

[Daniele Levorato <daniele levorato infocamere it>]

Hi All,
Some time ago (well I think during gnome 1.4 release) there was a very
helpfull applet... called "File Menu" applet or something similar. This
applet allowed users to "quick browse" the filesystem like a menu where
files are items and sub-directory are sub-menus.
When you use Gnome as your "personal productivity instrument" at work,
like me, with many-many-many windows opened and you have to quickly use
a file or take a look at a directory content, that applet would be very
usefull!
Some times (many times) Nautilus is too "heavy" for this operation (open
it from home, start clicking around with file-preview, lot of graphics
to redraw... just to locate a file... the tree is no longer available in
Spatial-Nautilus)... so many times I found simplier to open a
gnome-terminal and use that TAB-auto-completion feature and the "ls"
command.
This issue is obviously related to the usability, the way Gnome allows
user to quikly interact with filesystems.

... However that applet is still available from the internet...

Does someone succeded in installing that applet?
...
I tried to compile it by myself (after downloading from the internet)
but it seems too old to work with gnome2.
Is there something similar or planned for the Gnome2 platform?
In my opinion that would be very usefull... the "Open recent" sometimes
comes in help but it's a different thing... just think that in KDE such
a feature is present and I even used it many times with gnome 1.4.
What do you think? Any suggestion?