Re: Nautilus splitted-view

["Kristoffer Lundén" <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

Hello, just helping to clarify:

On Feb 13, 2008 12:14 AM, Tuomas Kuosmanen <tuomas kuosmanen gmail com> wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008 12:53 AM, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax gmail com> wrote:
> > Personally I find it useful for two reason:
> > 1 - It is easier to move a file from one place to another
> > 2 - It is easier two compare the content of two directory (e.g. a
> > directory backup that I placed on a cd and the original directory).
>
> How is this any different from having two nautilus windows open side by side?
>

1. is somewhat different, as split view file managers have lots of
convenient shortcuts for copy/move and more. It's F5 instead of
CTRL-C, (one or more) ALT-TAB, CTRL-V, or one click instead of
dragging (though the cumbersome ways are usually supported as well).

2. is very different. For a few files it may be enough to take a quick
manual look, but for many files or even sub-directories, (some) file
managers with split view has a lot of convenient diff and sync
possibilities that is easy for regular users to use and understand.


> Basically, you already said there would be two location bars. There
> would also need to be two navigation toolbars (up, back, home etc) or
> you would need to introduce a concept of "active" and "passive" side
> view in order to use a common toolbar for both.. So you basically
> would end up with two separate nautilus windows embedded into one
> "master"window.
>
> How is this any different from having two nautilus windows open side by side?
>

Mainly focus and arrangement problems, just like the Gimp has,
especially if you want to have any other application running and not
have to use separate virtual desktops. There is a lot of annoyance
when having to arrange those two windows and having to activate them
both when having done something else.

It's not a killer feature, it's a convenience thing. I do well without
it, but would do better with it.


80% of what people want with this would probably be accomplished if it
was possible to create a window with two (decoration-less) Nautilus
instances in it, with a splitter between. 90% if that window had a
toolbar with some commands that could control those instances
(example: copy all selected in focused to unfocused). Maybe that is
already possible to do. :)


The worst part about all(?) of those "power" file managers is that
they are like "KDE Emacs" (sorry, sorry but you know what I mean ;))
while a potential GNOME version should stick to common use cases while
still being more powerful/convenient than today.


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