Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Freitag, den 19.11.2004, 15:38 -0800 schrieb Gabriel Bauman:

> Right now in GNOME under spatial mode, it's a pain to get to a given
> folder that's several layers deep.
[...]
> 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.
[...]
> Under BeOS you could also right click the desktop and drill down through
> folders on the desktop, using the same system.
[...]
> What are people's thoughts on this? IMO, this simple improvement could
> improve the GNOME spatial experience immensely. It might even boost
> spatial mode's popularity with the fanatical "Browser mode" sect. 

You're completely right, this sounds like a rocking idea. I've tried
adding such a nautilus extension to my bookmark-applet (CVS:
bookmark-applet), since it already exposes widgets that turn folders
into GtkMenus/GtkMenuItems. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the
NautilusMenuProvider read my widgets, because it wants
NautilusMenuItems. If anybody could tell me how to use plain
GtkMenuItems with submenus as NautilusMenuItems (I fear this might not
be possible), the rest is kid's play.

regs,
 Chris