Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode

[Tom von Schwerdtner <tomvons gmail com>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:05:51 -0800, George Farris <farrisg shaw ca> wrote:
> 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.

Combining this with the filechooser's "path buttons" functionality
might satisfy the majority of folks who don't seem to like spatial
nautilus.

Regards,
Tom

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