On Di, 03.07.2012 00:20, John Stowers wrote: >> And here is the same feature, but at the window manager level (and for all >> the other apps too): >> http://andreasn.myownb3.com/temp/nau-side-by-side.png >> >> Same thing, just on a different level and now desktop-wide. > >Not quite. > >With split planes > >select complex combination of files with ctrl -> right click -> move >to other pane. Unless this feature appears nautilus wide (right click >-> move to <list of open nautilus window locations>) this represents a >usability loss for me.
Exactly. Split-view is NOT a workaround for window manager limitations. If it was, I would have proposed a patch to the window manager, not to Nautilus. Split-view introduces the concept of "source and target". The two panes are inherently connected, and are not two random unrelated windows displayed side-by-side. This introduces the possibility to have single menu items for copy/move operations, as you mention. Or, in combination with the recently removed but fortunately re-accepted can-change-accel functionality, single button press file moves. Another feature is that the relation between the panes can also be used within Nautilus Scripts. I have a trivial single-key-press diff script which just "diffs the right thing" according to the current selection (be it two files in a common directory, two files in two distinct directories, or two locations). It helps me to work. A lot. Holger _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
