Hello, just helping to clarify: On Feb 13, 2008 12:14 AM, Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 12:53 AM, Salvatore Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally I find it useful for two reason: > > 1 - It is easier to move a file from one place to another > > 2 - It is easier two compare the content of two directory (e.g. a > > directory backup that I placed on a cd and the original directory). > > How is this any different from having two nautilus windows open side by side? >
1. is somewhat different, as split view file managers have lots of convenient shortcuts for copy/move and more. It's F5 instead of CTRL-C, (one or more) ALT-TAB, CTRL-V, or one click instead of dragging (though the cumbersome ways are usually supported as well). 2. is very different. For a few files it may be enough to take a quick manual look, but for many files or even sub-directories, (some) file managers with split view has a lot of convenient diff and sync possibilities that is easy for regular users to use and understand. > Basically, you already said there would be two location bars. There > would also need to be two navigation toolbars (up, back, home etc) or > you would need to introduce a concept of "active" and "passive" side > view in order to use a common toolbar for both.. So you basically > would end up with two separate nautilus windows embedded into one > "master"window. > > How is this any different from having two nautilus windows open side by side? > Mainly focus and arrangement problems, just like the Gimp has, especially if you want to have any other application running and not have to use separate virtual desktops. There is a lot of annoyance when having to arrange those two windows and having to activate them both when having done something else. It's not a killer feature, it's a convenience thing. I do well without it, but would do better with it. 80% of what people want with this would probably be accomplished if it was possible to create a window with two (decoration-less) Nautilus instances in it, with a splitter between. 90% if that window had a toolbar with some commands that could control those instances (example: copy all selected in focused to unfocused). Maybe that is already possible to do. :) The worst part about all(?) of those "power" file managers is that they are like "KDE Emacs" (sorry, sorry but you know what I mean ;)) while a potential GNOME version should stick to common use cases while still being more powerful/convenient than today. -- Stoffe > //Tuomas > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list > -- Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.playdo.com ☎ 0704 48 98 77 -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
