Re: raise opened windows when try to open new one

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Mazzoni Perseo wrote:
> Hello boy...
>
> After so many time i'm using nautilus I think this can be a useful thing 
> to do:
>
> If i opened my home dir and I minimized it, when I try to re-open my 
> home dir, for example, nautilus could raise my old opened window....
> I think this can be usefull because I find myself to re-open again and 
> again windows opened and just minimized.....
>
> What do you think 'bout this idea?
>
> ciaooo!

I don't think this model works when you have multiple workspaces.

What if you opened your home folder on a different workspace?  When you 
open a new one, do you want it to switch to that workspace and focus the 
old window?

I doubt it, as that would be really confusing, and would keep you from 
having access to your home folder on multiple workspaces at the same 
time.  But it's inconsistent to allow new windows to be opened for 
folders ONLY if the existing windows are on other workspaces.

Also, if you want to open two windows (one for ~/pictures and one for 
~/work), it's natural to double-click twice on the home folder icon, and 
then browse to the new directories.  I think it would be confusing if 
the second double-click didn't do anything.  You'd have to give some 
sort of special user-feedback to make the user know why double-clicking 
again didn't do anything.