The intelligent and fast search algorithms in both GNOME Shell and Unity's "Dash" make both UIs much better candidates for focusing a single item and providing details as well as interaction options for it. An alternative POV, considering that most of the discussion here seems to be based on the assumption that a classical file-manager will do the job.
As Federico Mena already suggests in "Circulation for your files<http://live.gnome.org/DocumentCentricGnome/Circulation%20for%20your%20files>", context information about the to-be-focused item is useful, yet classical file managers do not do this well, since they have no apparent visual way to create an obvious contrast of a focused item against its relational "background" (except the ordinary "select" highlight) This is much easier to achieve in a minimalistic UI with a symbolic d-bus api, such as Dash or "Shell" if i'm correct. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 19:53, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 22 de September de 2011 19:51:31 Aleksei Lissitsin wrote: > > This could be a nice approach. The D-Bus service file for FileManager1 > > could then just (be installed by and) call xdg-open to start the right > > file manager if none is running. > > D-Bus requires that the process it starts claim the name. If this process > exits before the name is claimed, the message will return to sender.
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