Re: The perfect file manager

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Jun 2008, at 15:36, A. Walton wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM, David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>  
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:37 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
> > > > - tabs (Windows Vista, and Apple's OS X are far behind this  
> > > > feature)
> > > This is being worked on.
> >
> > I've read about this on this list. It sounds scary. Does anyone  
> > have a
> > screenshots of the work in progress? Thanks.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/05/27/gnome-file-manager-gets-tabbed-file-browsing
>
> And for closer investigation:
> svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/nautilus/branches/multiview/

I still wish somebody would just invest the effort in implementing  
tabs at the window manager level, instead of continually trying to  
decide which applications deserve tabs and which ones don't, and  
trying to make sure the ones that do all behave the same :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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