Re: A modest spatial proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 22:25, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> A number of people from the gnomedesktop.org forums have been playing
> around with the spatial view version of nautilus.  After reading a few
> remarks and looking over the new Mac OS X Finder, I have a modest
> proposal.
> 
> The Mac OS X Finder has a sidebar with a number of shortcuts to various
> locations:
> 
> http://a352.g.akamai.net/7/352/51/2e9d5a1ab1d2db/www.apple.com/macosx/features/finder/images/finderwindow10082003.jpg
> 
> This seems a pretty neat way to get around the spatial view is cool but
> it is a pain to get around arguements.  
> 
> Just a thought.  

Did you read my volume handling proposals? They sort of address this
issue. I'm currently working on the lowlevel support for it, so soon we
might be able to do experiments with the UI.

I don't like the idea of a sidebar on all spatial windows though. Window
size is very important in spatial mode, since you tend to have many
windows open at the same time, and repeating the sidebar for each window
wastes a lot of space. I mean, most people seem to disable the sidebar
in navigation mode even. However, we'll try to work on the problem of
getting to important locations quickly.

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