Re: [Usability] Proposal to solve some drawbacks of the currentspatial implementation

[<john erling blad aftenposten no>]

>>Maurizio Colucci wrote:
>> I am proposing the following change, which solves both problems in
one shot:
>> 
>> In the gnome panel, add a global dropdown button called "recent 
>> folders". when clicked, it simply pops up a menu with the most
recently 
>> visited locations, SORTED BY LAST VISITING TIME. It is GLOBAL because
it 
>> contains locations visited from ANY nautilus window; it is not
relative 
>> to one window. If you select a folder from the menu, a nautilus
window 
>> relative to that directory is opened (or brought on top if already
opened).

>Dave Ahlswede wrote:
>This sounds interesting-- I would counter-propose that, instead of (or
>possibly in addition to) a panel applet, that this be merged with the
>FileChooser bookmarks and put in the Nautilus Places menu. (I think
>merging the FileChooser bookmarks and Nautilus places has actually been
>discussed in the past, but I don't recall if anyone has written any
code
>for it)

Folders reordering within the list all the time isn't working very. Each
time they reorder you would have to visually scan the list for the right
item. It isn't very hard to make rules that try to keep the most
recently / most frequently used items in fixed, sorted locations until
they fade out of use. I believe this is what at least one other rather
small software company does.

John