On 3/30/07, Francesco Fumanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation, and your points seem to make sense. > Particularly, I can confirm that I rarely have multiple nautilus windows > open. >
I do, in fact I only have one really real use case for tabs in a file manager that I haven't found a good workaround for (maybe if the window manager actually did help ;-)). I often work in multiple directories at the same time, sometimes in the same project, sometimes not - but either way, switching via the tree or a future column view isn't really enough - I do want separate windows in functionality, but I don't want a a lot of windows on my desktop. That's essentially what tabs are in most apps, several windows with better grouping than the wm. Because, I don't find that the window manager helps me any there. If I'm working in my file manager, I don't want to go hunting for other windows all the time when I could just click a tab. That's the one use case I really miss from other managers, even though I'd appreciate the tabs in other situations also. Or if there was a better way the wm could help me of course, though I don't know how that would be. I'm not at all sure if it's just a mental block I have either, because I can't really tell why this is so *much* easier than the task bar or exposé-like stuff. It just is. :) As an aside, I've wondered mutiple times if it would be possible to have the window manager group applications with tabs in the windows, much like XP groups apps on the task bar, but instead of having a menu there, having the bottom(?) of the window have a tab for each instance. I think that would fit my workflow perfectly, but it's hard to tell. Wonder if that would be easy to add to Metacity and try it out... -- Kristoffer -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gamemaker.nu/ ☎ 0704 48 98 77 -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
