Re: Nautilus View / Listeners compared with Windows Namespace extension questions

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le mar 14/10/2003 à 13:42, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> The UI for a file manager will always be there, and any additional
> extension of the UI still has to live inside this world (sharing
> concepts, menus, key shortcuts etc). Having a photo managing studio
> inside nautilus is never gonna be as efficient and easy to use as a real
> standalone app focusing on that. Doing it all in Nautilus just gives you
> an over-complicated filemanager and an inefficient user interface and
> implementation for the photo manager.

I've always wondered if a layout like GThumb's directory mode would be a
better candidate for browsing the filesystem. That way you have:

      * small icons for the dir view, but full bonobo view for the
        preview pane.
      * no more schizophrenic application/view: a single click updates
        the preview pane, a double click launch the associated app.
      * easier grasp for newcomers at what is Nautilus: the directory
        view won't change to e.g. EOG.
      * better way to manage collections than GThumb: you can view not
        only pics, but all objects you have a view for.

Does it make sense ?