2009/2/24 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com>: > The question is, do they want just a split view, or do the want the full > nc-like app? I tested Dolphin and konqueror today. From what I can see > they don't support *any* extra operations in their split view. Its more > or less the same as having two windows next to each other. Adding the > complexity of that and then not using it even for the most common > operations (copy/move to other pane) seems kind of weird.
I think this is another instance of the "lack of toplevel windows organization features" problem that most WMs suffer from. Including metacity and, I suppose, kwin. The WM should have the ability for the user to tell it (graphically, drag'n'droping) that "I'm going to work with these N windows a lot so stick them together in this non overlapping way" (aka tiling). Of course, it can be argued that such a one size fits all WM solution wouldn't yield the best results for every situation and some apps would still need to do their own (in window) tiling, but I think that's fine. OTOH, every app would benefit without a single line change. To me, what I described above would be enough when working with more than 1 nautilus window (I use spatial mode). Rui -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list