On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 12:08, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:41, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On 28Apr2002 02:34AM (+0100), Glynn Foster wrote: > > > The only useful feature in the sidebar really seems to be the > > TreeView, which I would like to see being rolled into the Icon View, > > List View and Tree View option. Plus, it really seems to take up a > > lot of wasted space. > > > The List view should be converted to an Outline view (which is > essentially a Tree view with multiple columns with a possibly-changing > root instead of always rooted at '/'). I don't think I'm adding > anything original by saying this though. > > Me neither, but I agree anyway ;-) The macos > tree-in-main-window-instead-of-sidebar is very useful and handy if you > have a lot of files - especially the changing root feature. You have a > tree plus you can "chroot" it to keep the tree size in sane limits. > > If we had an Outline view I don't know if it would still make sense ot > have the Tree view. I guess it would still be useful as a side view to > navigate while looking at things in the main view. > > It is useful for people who got used to windows, since one usually uses > the sidebar tree as a drag target when moving files. On Nautilus I > usually open new windows to do it. But I guess some people want that > too, although the tree usually gets awfully tall and thus needs a lot of > scrolling. We need some more "roots" in the Tree side panel for it to be really useful. a "Home" root, a "Volumes" root... > I also wish the Tree view had a better name. Tree is such a nerdy term > that focuses more on the implenentation that the actual UI and purpose > of the feature. Can anyone thing of a better name? The best I can come > up with is "System Outline" which is way too wordy. > > On windows it is "Folders" which makes sense and sounds like a good > name. Only problem is that our Tree sidepanel doesn't only show folders ;) Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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