On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:05 +0100, Peter Lundqvist wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > 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. > [snip] > > > I think the same functionality can be achieved just fine by opening two > > separate Nautilus windows or..?
It could, but one window can hide the other, which would not happen with tabs. I think the great advantage of tabs is to better organize windows, which can be grouped by theme to reduce clutter (as in epiphany for example). I think it is way better to have tabs than to group window list buttons (the titles of the tabs are not hidden). I am a great fan of tabs anyhow, and would love to see them in Nautilus. You could then have bookmark folders, and permit opening a folder as a set of tabs, as in firefox. If you want a usage example, you could open with one click tabs containing website source, a testing server directory and a production server FTP. I would prefer tabs over split screen, you can have many tabs, but a split screen would get rather squished with more than a few splits. I can't see many usage scenarios where you have to see the contents of two folders simultaneously (at least I cannot remember ever having to place two nautilus windows side to side). > There even is a gnome gnome application[*] that does this (albeit not > maintained). Having this functionality in nautilus might be a good thing, > but a standalone app would is good enough. > > * http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/ There is another little GTK+ file manager http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ that uses tabs. Love, Karderio -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
