Re: [Nautilus-list] The Shelf

[Robert Atkey <roba dcs ed ac uk>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:09:10PM -0400, Caleb Land wrote:
> Hello,
> The other day I got an itch to implement the "shelf" (to which you can drag
> files as a temporary holding zone to be placed in another directory) idea
> that was tossed around here a while back.  I decided that the shelf should
> be a sidebar thing, so I delved into the "notes" component, and began to
> learn how it works.
> 
> But it occurred to me that someone else might be implementing this, so
> before I go much further, I would like to know if anybody else is working on
> something similar.
> 

Hi,

I had a go at implementing a shelf for nautilus a while ago. You can see
how far I got at:

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/roba/nautilus-shelf.tgz

This also includes a shell sidebar view that gives you a small shell in
the sidebar panel.