Re: Browsing deep hierarchies in spatial mode

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:48 -0500, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> 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.

Already done - see Nautilus Plus :

http://nautilus-plus.sourceforge.net/

Unfortunately it wont be in the standard nautilus because the maintainer
rejected the pathbar feature that I implemented. However I am
maintaining Nautilus Plus which contains all the goodies that I created
which didn't make it into Nautilus (it has GTK bookmarks integrated into
places menus, hybrid browse/spatial functionality for those like me who
think pure spatial sux, pathbar et al). 

If someone implements this submenu navigation I would be happy to host
it in Nautilus Plus if it wasn't accepted into Nautilus.

jamie.

> 
> Regards,
> Tom
>