[Usability] An idea for Nautilus new OO-based UI

[Joao Victor <googlyboy2 yahoo com br>]

Hello folks,

I've read that Nautilus is now gonna feature an OO-based UI design, and i find it
interesting. However, i think this feature could be better implemented, so i'm sending
this email to discuss that, and see what you guys think about it.

With the new design, everytime a user clicks on a folder, it is going to be opened in a
new window. While there are some good points about this behavior, there are also some bad
points about it, in my opinion, such as:

 * Opening a new window is a slow process. Users that haven't got the lastest CPU will
find this feature "bloat".

 * If you've got too many subdirectories (which is common nowadays), you'll end up with
your desktop full of Nautilus' windows, which is not very nice to the eyes, and also
consumes lots of RAM.

Given these problems, i think there is a good, and very simple solution to this: use
tabs.

Instead of creating a new window everytime the user opens a folder, it could create a new
tab. This way you wouldn't have lots of Nautilus' windows opened - you'd have only the
main window, and the tabs are inside it -, and creating a new tab is much faster than
creating a new window.

So, that's it... what do you think about it?

Thanks,
Victor.

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