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

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:02, Joao Victor wrote:
> 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?
> 

I think one of the advantages of the OO file management is that, each
window being a folder, you could associate a window size to each folder.
Using tabs it's not possible anymore...

> Thanks,
> Victor.
> 
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