Re: Mega patch to make spatial nautilus rock!

[frank flynch net]

I am also in favor of this patch. 

I built it last night, and I absolutely love it, this patch truly makes
spatial nautilus rock. I implore the spatial camp to give this patch a
chance, please download & build it before you decide either way -
Jamie's fantastic work enables what I can only describe as spatial
browsing - which will draw browser bigots over into the spatial world.
As I'm sure you know spatial nautilus got mixed reviews in the media
when gnome 2.6 was released. I believe that with this patch spatial
nautilus will get rave reviews, this is quite simply the best file
manager I've ever used. 

Jamie - you've done an amazing job! I'm looking forward to seeing the
"move to" and "copy to" context menu items. Thanks to you I now have the
best file browser known to man. I really hope that your work makes it
into gnome 2.8, but if it doesn't I'll be sticking with nautilus 2.6.3
with your patches for some time.

cheers!
--Frank


On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 11:35 +0930, Greg Haywood wrote:
> well I will add my 2c in favor of this patch, it certainly improves
> things for me and should not cause the "strict" spatial/navigator
> camps any issues.
> 
> -Greg
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:49:19 -0700, Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com> wrote:
> > I haven't followed everything about your patch, but what you said below,
> > plus the screenshot, looks awesome.  Is this going to make it into CVS?
> > 
> > Raul
> > 
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > 
> >  > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 00:46, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> >  > > > Its also not really a third way as you put it cause we dont need the
> >  > > > heavyweight navigator for it as an option - even ms explorer is
separate
> >  > > > from the lightweight browser it uses on the desktop. The navigator
is
> >  > > > fine as a separate and more complex app for more experienced users (a
la
> >  > > > explorer) but I actually find my patch with pathbar much much better
for
> >  > > > general browsing. If you haven't tried the patch then I suggest you
do
> >  > > > cuz it really makes browsing and file management really pleasant and
> >  > > > efficient.
> >  > >
> >  > > I think that the bottom nav pathbar is a great idea.
> >  >
> >  > Yes I'm glad theres a majority of you that do want this feature - its so
> >  > much slicker and nicer than the inefficient and irritating popup
> >  > location button/menu.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > >   You just have to
> >  > > make it not start at / but use the topologically nearest available
root
> >  > > out of the list of roots in the file/open dialog.  Basically
> >  > >
> >  > > /home/rudd-o/src
> >  > >
> >  > > shoudl appear as
> >  > >
> >  > > [Home folder] [src]
> >  > >
> >  > > Is that it?
> >  >
> >  > Already implemented and with home stock icon too so it more closely
> >  > resembles the file chooser's pathbar - see my screenshot for what it
> >  > looks like with this at :
> >  >
> >  > http://www.jamiemcc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Nautilus_pathbar.png
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > > Oh and it *should* open a new window.
> >  >
> >  > But it does! (but you can also set it to open in the same window too -
> >  > EG you could set it up to have left click to open in new window and
> >  > middle click to open in same window and that way the pathbar can do both
> >  > depending whether you left or middle click it).
> >  >
> >  > Just to elaborate on why having the "open in same window" is appropriate
> >  > here is because it actually provides a better slicker browsing ability
> >  > compared to the navigator cause it has really good usability and
> >  > consistency with the file chooser (thanks to the pathbar) and that will
> >  > of course make it much easier for new users. And the icing on the cake
> >  > is it integrates perfectly with the spatial mode thereby allowing you to
> >  > mix and match the two really smartly - it creates the perfect hybrid
> >  > file manager thats superior to either a pure browse or pure spatial
> >  > implementation - there really is no need to limit yourself to just
> >  > browse or spatial any longer (and hopefully end the destructive
> >  > polarisation and fragmentation that the browser/spatial dichotomy causes
> >  > too).
> >  >
> >  > I haven't used a better or slicker file manager anywhere else on any
> >  > other platform - it even beats OS/X thanks to the pathbar!
> >  >
> >  > But there's no point in me ranting on how cool it is cause you really
> >  > need to try it out to appreciate how slick and elegant it is - I'm not
> >  > exaggerating when I say it rocks!
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > jamie.
> >  >
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