Re: [Usability] File menu applet

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam pubcrawler org>]

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.
(Also should have all the normal nautilus nifty stuff, like open folders being
highlighted, middle double clicking a folder should open it and close the
tree view, should be in the menu from any folder window, possibly should even
have an interface to the bookmarks, etc).
-- 
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.