Re: [Nautilus-List] Constructive Criticism Revisited

[Seabstian Mannke <occam pop-hannover de>]

Hi John,

> As a newcomer to Linux I have followed this thread with interest. I like
> Nautilus very much - for its clean elegance as much as anything. The
> more I use it and find out how to do things the more I like it. I hope
> you will not mind such a tyro sticking his head over the parapet with a
> suggestion. I use the tree a lot for moving and copying files with right
> click for copying and left click for moving, and find it very convenient
> in principle. In practice, however, I do not use 90% of it, which just
> clutters everything up; especially when it constantly changes to showing
> the folder I have just loaded into the window, so that I have to go
> roaming up and down it to find the folder I now want. I also like the
> elegance of the Evolution shortcuts, but can see the argument against
> adding another sidebar panel.

yes..me too...the self-browsing of the tree-view is very bugging

> 	Is there any merit in simply having a tree that can be toggled between
> SYSTEM (showing everything) and USER (showing only home folder, cdrom,
> floppy etc)? Perhaps a couple of buttons at the top of the tree panel
> could indicate SYSTEM and USER; maybe even a third button to toggle
> between showing everything and folders only. Cdrom etc in the USER side
> could perhaps be shown simply as CDROM, FLOPPY etc rather than
> /mnt/cdrom etc. As an ordinary user who needs occasionally to access the
> full tree I'm sure I would find this very useful, without the potential
> confusion of more toolbar buttons or side panels.
> 	I hope I am not being silly and missing something obvious. It does seem
> to me, however, after a few months of struggling with Linux, that a very
> simple, undemanding interface that can be quickly toggled to one giving
> more control over the system would be very appealing to the beginner. 

So it is something like a "Tree-View Filter"...Okay that work for me and
you but some big icons like the places thing will help to drag and drop
to zip or floppy...also the mount/umount is not very good in a Tree-View
isn't ?!?!

So i make screenshots with gimp to visualize it ;)

The Device-Tree-View-Filter...
http://bbsliste.de/nautilus/nautilus-view-dev.jpg

The Device-Tree-View with Big Icons...
http://bbsliste.de/nautilus/nautilus-view-bigdev.jpg

The Home-Tree-View-Filter
http://bbsliste.de/nautilus/nautilus-view-home.jpg


Sebastian

PS: Sorry for my bad english...
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