Hi,
This mail will be a little bit long since it may request a big change , be
patient , :) .
I come up with the group view first from Desktop. You may have a lot of
icons in desktop so that if we can group icons in the Desktop and manage icons
according to group, it will be much cleaner. One windows programs that
implemented this ideas, you can get more info from
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/.
Then I search the web and found similar ideas from ubuntu users.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/15144/. So this will be cool that if we can
support group view also for any directory. While for list view, this may not be
that useful, but Windows 7 support this.(I saw the webpage, but I can't find it
anymore)
Nautilus was totally new to me (I didn't know that Desktop is managed by
Nautilus 2 weeks ago), so the following proposed change should be optimized by
some people who knows more.
1. create a new class called NautilusViewManager, which has 1:1
relationship with window-slot. It will load directory, monitor directory , and
manager views inside the the same window-slot
ViewManager will always has a default view, and several user
configured views. configured view stores its data, such as the file list, view
position, icon position... If the directory has no configured at all, then
every file goes to default view.
2. rename the directory_view to base_view, and remove the load directory
function from this base view.
3. since load directory function is handled by ViewManager,
nautilus-window-manage-view.c may be removed.(and it is strange for me that
this file exists.)
window-slot, view factory, directory_view are coupled together tightly for
load directory. After change, when window slot loads a new location , it will
be easier, just starts a new viewManager and give the new location to the new
viewManager. Window-slot only talks to ViewManager.
any comments ?
Br, Chen Gang
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