Re: Nautilus split side pane patch

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

I'd love to see some review for this by the developers - It can be quite
demotivating to not receive feedback...

andre

Am Donnerstag, den 05.06.2008, 07:15 -0700 schrieb Daren Robbins:
> Here is a patch to provide a split side pane, for anyone who might be
> interested:
> http://www.nextw3.com/programming/2.22.4-splitsidepane-patch
> 
> This is based on the (currently 2.22.4)
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/nautilus/branches/gnome-2-22/ source.
> 
> FYI, the bottom splitter panel should default to collapsed, and you'll
> need to drag it up or click on it to expand it. 
> 
> FYI2, this patch will also reverse the order of the items in the
> Places sidebar so bookmarks are at the top and built-in places at the
> bottom.
> 
> Screen shot:
> http://www.nextw3.com/programming/Nautilus-SplitSidebar.png
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 00:22 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> > Interesting idea, although right now I'd personally like to see us  
> > trying to simplify the sidebar rather than making it any more  
> > complex :)  (Step 0: find out how many of the existing sidebar views  
> > people *really* use...  figure out if the tree view really still  
> > useful since the Mac-style list view was introduced a while ago...  
> > etc...)
> 
> My 2c is that the right-pane tree gets a bit unwieldy after expanding
> more than a few nodes. I use it all the time, but I also find myself
> swapping between "Places" and "Tree" quite frequently as the former is
> my preference but the latter is useful to get into the general
> vicinity of a deeply buried file. I do see how the split sidebar adds
> to interface clutter, though - mostly I think due to the second bulky
> sidebar title box... 
> 
> As a side note, I imagine some interesting uses for this real estate
> in the way of sidebar provider extensions (e.g.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NautilusSidebarExtensions) become more
> compelling if they don't require giving up the "main" ones. 
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