[Usability] Re: two-panel nautilus view

[Tomasz Janowitz <logan77 o2 pl>]

Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is fix in current metacity to raise window in sloopy focus mode
> only if you click on the window's title. You have an option in gconf to
> enable this. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olaf
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:07 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
>> I agree with you but I think that metacity focusing the window on click
>> down is a major PITA when I want to drag and drop between two nautilus
>> windows.  Usually the source window being at the bottom and the bottom
>> window usually being bigger that the upper window, when you select and
>> item metacity will raise the window covering the upper window making the
>> drag and drop operation very difficult.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -William
>>
>>
>> El vie, 03-02-2006 a las 23:07 +0200, Tuomas Kuosmanen escribió:
>>> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:24 +0100, Oliver Tobin wrote:
>>>> while using nautilus, i had the idea that a two-panel-view is useful for
>>>> copying or moving files and other things like this. i made a picture how
>>>> this could look like. it´s available at
>>>> http://gnomelook.org/content/show.php?content=34741
>>>> with the yellow marked button you can change between the two-panel-mode and
>>>> the normal view.
>>>> can that become an extension for nautilus or go direct into the nautilus
>>>> code?
>>> I think the same functionality can be achieved just fine by opening two
>>> separate Nautilus windows or..? 
>>>
>>> //Tuomas


It works, but one has to search with mouse cursor and click the rather thin
title bar. Wouldn't it be feasible to have the window focused on click
only, and not when dragging items from window ? It looks like completely
different operations, so I presume it shouldn't be hard to bring this
functionality to existence.
   I'm not sure if it's good mentioning this here, but Windows has it. And
it's one of two things (the second being moving windows without constant
content redraw - AFAIR unresolvable in metacity) that I really miss.


regards
tj