Thankyou.

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

I'd just like to say thankyou for your hard work in making Nautilus the 
great app that it is today.  Its pleasing to see the speed improvements 
that are incremental in each release of Nautilus.  I'm now using Ximian 
snapshots of 2.0.3 and the speed just keeps getting better.  It is now 
nearly as fast as IE on windows and Kongueror on KDE, at least in my 
experience.

I have a few suggestions for Nautilus and would like to hear what other 
people think of these ideas.

1.\  Put a folders button the the toolbar similar to how gThumb does it.
2.\  Have another button on the toolbar called search.  This is one 
feature that I find very difficult to get along without.  Just about 
every file manager that I know of has the ability to search for, and in 
files.  I would like to have the search in the sidebar beacause that way 
I can see the files on the right and my search still in the sidbar.
3.\  Give users that migrate from windows better access to external 
storage devices.  I dont know how many times when friends/family use my 
computer that I have to tell them how to find the CD drive.  I prepose 
that in the sidebar we put "quicklinks" to these external storage 
devices, or mount points (probably not all mount points, users dont need 
to see swap etc.).  That way in the sidebar there would be the treeview 
(full tree) and also root directories for all external devices.  It 
might look something like this for a computer with 1 DVD drive and 1 CD 
Drive and 1 Flash Drive .

------------------------------------
/ (Full Tree)(*)                   |
 /bin                             |
 /boot                            |
 /home                            |
 /mnt                             |
 /usr                             |
 /var                             |
 /other directories               |
                                  |
                                  |
/ (CD Rom)(*)                      |
 /pictures                        |
 /another directory               |
                                  |
                                  |
/ (DVD Rom)(*)                     |
 /vcd's                           |
 /whatever                        |
                                  |
                                  |
/ (Flash Drive)(*)                 |
 /contents of flash drive         |
                                  |
------------------------------------
Note (*) is a placeholder for where some graphic of the particular 
device could be displayed.

Hopefully you can understand the little graphic.  It makes it a lot 
easier for a user that is not familiar with the system to get to each 
device.  With the exposion of such external "plug-in" devices (flash 
drive, camera, external HDD, external CDBurner etc) I feel that this is 
crutial.

I hope that the things I have said here are taken in the right context 
and help enhance Nautilus, even if this post just creates some debate it 
will be good for Gnome.

Thanks, and I look forward to your comments.