I've been investigating the options available for OPENSTEP style columns view file browsers, and I've decided I don't like what's out there. I may sound like I'm nitpicking - which I am - but Dolphin's KDE (which is jarring in GNOME), Gworkspace is GNUstep (which is even worse at playing nicely with others), and the brief Thunar patch proposal didn't emerge.
As such, I'm planning to implement it in Nautilus instead - for my own purposes, at least. However, since there's a Brainstorm idea[1] open for it, I wondered whether others were interested in the concept. Any input as to how best to implement it (ie.: mode vs. view, resizeable columns vs. global fixed size, preview panel vs. not, etc.). On the other hand, taking recent discussions about a split view into account, I realize that this may seem to branch from Nautilus' intended purpose as a graphical shell. Obviously I think it would be a great addition, though; it nicely extends on the breadcrumb bar idea as a graphical way to display directory hierarchy. It works well for browsing multimedia directories especially. [1] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4496/ Brian -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
