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

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

Dave Ahlswede wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:07 +0200, 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).
> >
> >    
>
> 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)
>  

I don't see why you would want to do that, since the "recent folders" 
list is global, not relative to a single nautilus window. It contains a 
merge of the locations visited from ANY nautilus window...