Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2004, 01:28 +0100 schrieb Alan Horkan: > > Perhaps some of the problems with Nautilus could be circumvented with a > > separate directory traversal menu/applet/application? Something like the > > Gnome Foot but instead of the ordinary menu you pop up a directory tree. > > I would like it to extend from top to bottom of the desktop but stay > > along the left side. > > I'm 99% certain this has been done before, there might even be a Gnome 2 > applet available somewhere that does this. i remember darkly something like this in gnome1.6 - i tried it but actually never used it. i think such things do not scale well - putting a list of folders in gtk-menu style is just not what they were made for. as soon you got bigger directories and complex projects, lots of rendering problems pop up. i think list views or even threaded views might work well with nautilus. my biggest drawback for list views though is, that the autogenerated image and other thumbnails just dont work really well with it. there should be something like a minimal icon size, that renders thumbnails. i see for example no reason why there should be thumbnails, when the icons of the filemanager are ~24pixel big. maybe will file a bug on this. because its too often in the way for me. but thinking, spatial nautilus - or a spatial file manager is a whole different concept and hardly integrates well with a second applet - point in the user interface - that tries to provide something for it. imho a spatial filemanager must integrate well with the applications itself. it's too often, that i save a file and then have to traverse the whole directory structure using nautilus -again-, or using ncftp/gftp -again-. i think we should try to track down things that leads to repetetive navigations in the spatial use of nautilus, and try to solve those issues - on the user interface side. markus
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