Hi Mark, I've read all your discussion with Xavier and Alexander. I think you should give a try to the spatial mode, it may be ackward at first but it really work great when you need about 5 to 10 folder open at the same time. I usually get a desktop alone for this operation. And there some nifty menu for closing a bunch of parent directory that are not needed.
Just as a note the GConf key is : /app/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser Just disable this and try to see if it's fit your need. Not for just an hours but a couple of days. You may be surprise. 2007/8/30, Mark Thiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:00 +1000, Mark Thiele wrote: > > > > There is nothing wrong in not being everything to everyone. > > True, but you don't have to be a power user to want to have access > multiple files in multiple directories all at once. > > You can do that fine already. Just use multiple windows. > > > Multiple windows is the primary problem. > > > > > There is a cost that all users have to bear when you add complex > features to the UI, so for each feature its a tradeoff you have to make > between how it affects the majority of users and how much it gains the > people who use the feature. > > > I would suggest that most users would not be calling for tabs, as they > have not had the opportunity to use them before in a file browser. There > is nothing to stop it being a preference option. I would also suggest > that it may become quite popular if it were offered in an obvious way. A > quick search of the web will discover many calls for tabs in nautilus. > > Web searches are not a good way do decide user interface questions. Only > the vocal are visible in such a search. They may easily be a minority, > plus you don't see the people who already like the current behaviour. > > > Web searches may have their weaknesses, as with any quick survey, but it > can perhaps give a small indication of user direction. > > > > > Of course, nobody has done the work of actually implementing tabs and > designing the user interaction model. So perhaps its possible to do it > such that it doesn't affect the non-tab-user much and doesn't cause too > much strain on the rest of the codebase. If that is the case, and the > patch is clean it might be accepted. But I am not gonna spend time on it > personally. > > > I'd have a look at it, within the time I have available, but do not know > where to start. Any pointers? > > Not really. Start with reading the stuff in the docs dir in the source > tree. Its slightly outdated, but a good start. > > "If you want to look into it that's fine and if it works we may implement > it - not. We're not going to waste our time helping you do something that > does not suit our personal tastes." > > > > If you do have a large number of text based files open however, won't > you want a file browser with the ability to stand alongside? I've put > pcmanfm launchers on my desktop for this purpose, but still feel that I > shouldn't have to go to the bother. > > In general you don't have as many directories as you have files though. > > Very true, but why do you need as many windows as you have directories? > > Ok. I get it. The Nautilus team, regardless of what anyone else may ask for > or like, is not going to implement anything that they themselves do not > think is in "the best interests" of the lowest common denominator of user or > that does not fit their personal taste. > > As for changing my windows manager, why? Metacity is a great wm. No gripes > at all with it. Unlike other wm's I've tried (fluxbox, enlightenment, fvwm, > etc.) it works so seamlessly with gnome as to become invisible to the > general user. Nice, stable, and simple. I'm experimenting with enlightenment > though, but changing wm's has a distinct trade-off feature wise. Also a > distinct visual trade-off as most gnome apps seem to utilise gtk+ themes. > > The problem with any kind of workaround in a desktop environment is that > sooner or later you will find yourself having to workaround your workaround. > From my limited experience, it's generally a waste of time. > > Trying to do a workaround which leaves Nautilus drawing the files on my > desktop, but has pcmanfm opening all my folders bar the cd writer folder. > Would seem to be my best solution. I could get pcmanfm to draw the desktop > too and ditch nautilus altogether, but I still have to check what features > I'd lose. Probably not much... > > > Yours, > > dov > > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
