Aim: to reduce time and effort needed to access files, folders, bookmarks, programs, computers etc. with a single click.
A folder-panel lists the contents of a user-specified directory. In appearance, it's similar to a gnome-panel (options for autohide, transparency), but with nautilus-like functionality (listing real files and folders - or bookmarks, computers, program icons etc). These two very roughly drawn screenshots should bring this idea across. http://geocities.com/email_income_ab/folder-panel_1.jpg http://geocities.com/email_income_ab/folder-panel_2.jpg The ability to do this (or something similar) has been present in M$ desktops since IE4, and linux desktops since KDE 3.2. These (in my mind, anyway) are the current options for development, then: a) gnome-panel gets given file and folder listing capabilities b) nautilus obtains the option of creating a folder-panel from a folder c) nautilus offers a way to display only the side pane, as a desktop element / panel c) it could be a gdesklet (last resort) d) a new program is written to achieve this functionality Anyway - I'm not a programmer/developer/hacker - so I have no idea where to start. If someone wants to adopt this idea and change it to suit their needs, go right ahead, please. I'd love to see something come of it. And if anyone knows how I could go about starting something up, or has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! (And please forgive me for such a long post...) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
