Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:55 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:58 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> 1) Its a place where you can keep around the files you're currently
>    working on, for easy access and visibility while you're working on
>    them.
> 3) Its got a trashcan that is "always" visible (if not covered)
>    that can be used as a DnD target for various operations

For these two, what about having them not visible all the time, but you
can trigger them being displayed by moving the mouse to the top of the
menu. For instance, ignoring the lame gfx, we could do something like:

http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/piles.png

I.e. when you move the mouse to the top of the screen we slide in a
bunch of click/drop targets. By default there is a trash target and a
"create new pile" target. Then there is a pile for each pile the user
has created. If you're drag and dropping you can get these drop targets
to show up just by dragging to the top, then to a target and then
dropping. If you want to open something from a pile you can move to the
top to show the piles and then click on a pile to explode it.

Piles should be able to contain both real files as well as applications
and browser uris.

Anyway, just an idea.

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