Re: Suggestion: The option to open a folder in a New Tab instead of a New Window.

[Mark Thiele <markthiele gmail com>]

Hmm. Ok. I don't understand programming all that well, but can often 
enough trace my way through source code. No promises, I'm a full time 
student, a factory worker, webmaster and have to help with my elderly 
parents. Sounds interesting though.

What would the main problems be with the tabs? Aesthetics isn't an 
issue, it looks fine in pcmanfm which has a fairly similar layout. What 
are the differences code-wise between running several windows and 
running several tabs?

Technically it should be possible to utilize most of the code from 
elsewhere in the gnome project or other open source at least and perhaps 
introduce it firstly as a plugin if possible. From what you say though 
it may have to be more than a plugin, but introduced at build time.

Yours,

dov


> Problems include:
> * How would tabbed browsing interact with the current spatial and 
> browser interfaces?
> * The lack of anyone who wants the feature being willing to write the 
> code for it. This is the big stumbling block, especially as earlier 
> discussions seem to indicate that this would be non-trivial to 
> implement and require significant architectural changes internally 
> within Nautilus.