Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode
- From: George Farris <farrisg shaw ca>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:05:51 -0800
On Fri, 2004-19-11 at 15:38 -0800, Gabriel Bauman wrote:
> 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.
Now this sounds like a good idea. It would certainly make spacial o lot
more usable without breaking it.
If it comes to votes, you have mine.
--
George Farris
george gmsys com
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