Re: [Usability] File menu applet

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:55:42 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Adam D. Lopresto <adam pubcrawler org>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: Daniele Levorato <daniele levorato infocamere it>,
>      Gnome Usability List <usability gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] File menu applet
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> >
> > > Some times (many times) Nautilus is too "heavy" for this operation (open
> > > it from home, start clicking around with file-preview, lot of graphics
> > > to redraw... just to locate a file... the tree is no longer available in
> > > Spatial-Nautilus)... so many times I found simplier to open a
> >
> > You should be able to right click on the Home icon on your desktop and if
> > you choose Browse rather than open you will get the old style Nautilus and
> > you can turn on the tree view.

> While we're (a little) on the topic, I really think it would be nice to be able
> to have a separate tree view without using the browser.  That is, I'd like a
> separate window that has nothing but a directory tree, where double clicking on
> folders opens spatial windows to those folders.  Then you get all the
> advantages of spatial mode, but still get the tree when you need it.

You are describing something differnt from the Tree View in the Macintosh
Finder?  (I think you are suggesting something else.  Having a Tree
View like the Finder would be neat but I'm not going to request it as
I'm sure the developers have better things to do.)

I'm not sure the developers would go for mixing the Spatial model with a
tree view, they have seemed pretty clear on how they want Spatial to
behave.

- Alan