Re: [Usability]Re: Tabs for Nautilus ?

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Steve Tyler wrote:
> 
> One could argue that for consistency, Nautilus should have tabbed
> capability simply because Galeon, Gnome-Terminal, Gedit, etc all have
> it.  If I can view tabbed web pages in galeon and I browse (using
> nautilus) to a directory containing documents, I am already familiar
> with the concept of 'right-click/open in a new tab' in order to view a
> document and my first reaction would be to do the same thing. 


Well, there was an MDI widget in GNOME 1.4 that was supposed to do
pretty much what you're talking about (for more conventional MDI apps,
at least), but they decided to get rid of it :o)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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