Re: Zooming dock

[William Kendrick <nbs sonic net>]

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> In this way, you do not limit the choices of interaction, but increase the
> ability to become an expert because instead of learning 5 different ways of
> interacting with applications and file systems, ONE way of using the
> apps/filesystem works the same way.

I think Mac did this the best way so far with the old Finder!
Applications were just icons you would double click on your filesystem,
just like files.  (Well, because they WERE files, but.. :) )

Most good filemanagers do pretty much the same thing...

 * Double-click a document and it will launch an appropriate
   viewer/editor/whatever.

 * Double-click an application and it will just launch it.

 * Drag a document onto an application, and it will use that
   application to open the document.


I just tried something silly in Gnome Midnight commander.
I had one window open with "/bin" showing, and another with my
home directory.

I grabbed a file from my home directory, drug it onto the "touch" icon,
and then Rescanned my home directory.  Voila... its modification time
was updated. :)

-bill!