Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus suggestions

[Chris Heywood <psych primus com au>]

For what it's worth as a Nautilus user I agree with both the idea of
having an option to have the tree view only show the home directory
(maybe combined with some way to change the root of the view) and the
idea of being able to make the tree view take up the whole of the
sidebar.  I think there would be quite a number of users coming from GMC
who would prefer to have the tree view take up as much real estate of
the sidebar as possible and any other efforts to make it more
functional.

I would also use an (expert?) option to have the tree view use an ugly
rendering view where the contents packed closer.  Resulting in an uglier
but more functional tree.

Also a preference to have the tree view (or other panels) display by
default in the sidebar would be helpful.  

Just my 2c

Cheers,
Chris


On 29 May 2001 07:43:11 -0700, Heeten wrote:
> > * Tree view improvements
> > 
> > The current tree view really sucks...  My main
> > complaint is that the
> > sidebar space is not very efficiently used by the
> > treeview. This makes
> > it hard to get a good overview of the file tree.  I
> > guess most people
> > have the sidebar occcupying as little space as
> > possible since the file
> > view is the important one, therefore effecient space
> > usage is
> > crucial. It would be nice to have an option that
> > makes the treeview
> > occupy the entire sidebar panel. 
> > 
> > Device access (like floppy's and cdrom's) would also
> > be nice to have
> > in the tree view, and also "network neighborhood"
> > type access with SMB
> > and NFS support like in Konqueror... 
> 
> Why not have the tree view just show the users home
> directory and any subdir's in their home.  I think
> another neat feature would be to set up the tree view
> sortof like mozzila sets up the views of ftp stuff. 
> Where if you double click on a directory, it'll open
> that up in the root node of the tree, along with an
> option of going to the parent directory.
> My resoning for having the tree view  by default only
> show the home directory is this, most users don't need
> to explore anything but their home directories, and
> for the cases when they do, symlinks would work out
> well.  You could give people the ability to make
> symlinks to other directories from nautilus too
> (actully, I think this is already there).  Also, this
> reduces clutter, which is why I decided I'd never
> bother with the tree view.  It's just a thought I had
> that could make the tree view easier to use.
> 
> Heeten
> 
> 
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