Reasoning for Removal of Extra Pane Mode?

[Thomas Bollmeier <tbollmeier web de>]

Hi Nautilus-developers,

today I came across a news article that mentioned among other changes 
related to GNOME 3.5.4 that the extra-pane-mode will be removed in the 
new version of Nautilus. Since I use the extra-pane mode on a daily 
basis I first couldn't believe that such a handy feature should be 
removed - but after some research I found that it is indeed going to be 
removed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676858.
In my humble opinion the saying "It's not a bug - it's a feature" 
couldn't be more true in this case. Of course the support for the 
extra-pane-mode might cause some code complexity. But actually an easy 
way to copy or move files/directories from one location to another 
should be regarded as a core feature for a *file manager* like Nautilus. 
Of course I could instead open two Nautilus windows and place them on 
the left and right side using GNOME shell's "autosnap" feature. But 
compared to simply clicking "F3" this is quite cumbersome. So I really 
hope that this decision will be revisited again - at least in future 
releases. Otherwise Nautilus will become less usable for me.

Regards,
Thomas