Re: two-panel nautilus view

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 7 Feb, 2006, at 4:56 AM, karderio wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:05 +0100, Peter Lundqvist wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:24 +0100, Oliver Tobin wrote:
> > > > while using nautilus, i had the idea that a two-panel-view is 
> > > > useful for copying or moving files and other things like this.
> ...
> > > I think the same functionality can be achieved just fine by opening 
> > > two separate Nautilus windows or..?
>
> It could, but one window can hide the other,

If that's a major concern, you can use a tiling window manager. And 
even non-tiling window managers should make it easier to arrange 
windows side by side, whether they be folders, Web pages, or 
spreadsheets. This isn't a Nautilus-specific problem, so it shouldn't 
have a Nautilus-specific solution.

> which would not happen with tabs.

Actually it would *always* happen with tabs, because overlapping each 
other exactly is what tabs do. Tabs aren't relevant to this thread.

> ...
> I would prefer tabs over split screen, you can have many tabs, but a
> split screen would get rather squished with more than a few splits. I
> can't see many usage scenarios where you have to see the contents of 
> two folders simultaneously (at least I cannot remember ever having to 
> place two nautilus windows side to side).
> ...

Any time you want to move or copy files quickly. If you've ever tried 
to coach someone through a drag-and-drop via the Windows taskbar or the 
Gnome window list ("no, no, don't let go of the button! wait for the 
window to pop up! ... ok, let's go back and try again"), you know how 
unfriendly drag-and-drop via tabs would be.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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