Re: Introduction for GSoC

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:56 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Here are my ideas for GSoC (I have already posted them for Ubuntu
> > maillist, but I think it is actual for Gnome too):
> > 
> Well, it's more or less only GNOME ;)
> > 
> > 1) Column view for Nautilus. I have seen a suggestion of this
> > functionality somewhere on Ubuntu Brainstorm. This is a very useful
> > function for a file manager, in my opinion. I have been using Mac OS X
> > for a while and have found that Column View in Finder is very-very
> > easy-to-use. I think it will be big advantage for Gnome, because many
> > users of Mac OS X will feel right at home if they see their favorite
> > file manager view.
> > 
> I don't know the Column View in Finder but anyway, if you want to do
> this as a GSoc project, please contact the nautilus people (e.g. their
> mailing list). They have various plans for 3.0 and you should make sure
> this fits in.

As implemented in NeXTStep and later retro-fitted into the MacOS X
Finder:
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/appleoshistory/images/nextstep.jpg

Cheers