[Usability] Efficient navigation in nautilus
- From: Christian Schneider <c schneider scram de>
- To: usability gnome org
- Subject: [Usability] Efficient navigation in nautilus
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:27:47 +0200
Gnome 2.6 introduces a spatial navigation model. This means that each
folder coresponds to a certain window with a different size and position
that is saved permanently. While this concept is quite well known
already, gnome tries to do it a little better than other graphical
environments. While I like the spatial idea there are some chances for
improvements.
The first thing is an up button. While you can go down the path without
opening many windows by clicking with the middle key there is no way to
go up again and still stay with one window.
The second thing is the quick location entry. You can open a location
input field by typing Ctrl-L. It even supports tab completion. But
compared with the bash shell tab completion that is not enough. If there
are several paths that start with the same part you are stuck if you
don´t exactly know the name.
My idea to solve the problem is to open a simple input field in the
lower left corner when Ctrl-L is pressed. It could even stay there
permanently. When you type a path the matching folder windows could
open. If you type tab and there is only one matching path it will be
opened like before. If there are several possibilities the folder window
could show the possible completions. Then you can go on typing or click
the folder or file. So we have the graphical appearence of spatial
browsing and the speed and features of bash tab completion.
I have illustrated my idea with an image on my site:
http://www.liquid-reality.de/main/interests/nautilus_nav
If the path input field is shown permanently it could adapt to the
folder shown. It could even show the current file path when I edit a
document in gedit.
I would be very interested in your opinions on this ideas. Is something
like this already planned? Is it possible? Does it conform to the
general idea of spatial navigation?
Christian Schneider
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