Looks amazing, first of all. I think this would be a great feature to have in Nautilus going forward. It increases usability with minimal fuss, and it sounds like you've unintentionally laid the groundwork for another requested feature: Miller columns view (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4496/). I haven't looked at the code yet to confirm, but I will when I get a chance.
I think that it might be better to keep a communal location bar for the panes rather than the current method of one per pane. It would improve usability for lower-resolution users and can as a visual cue when changing between panes (assuming that they aren't pointed at the same directory). Speaking of which, I agree that the best visual cue of the active pane would be some sort of themed outline. Typing this from Gmail, something similar to its own active text field border would be ideal. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) the Gtk+ expert you need to tell you how possible that actually is, nor to implement it. Another idea - which I prefer but believe difficult at best - would be something like a reverse tab (bear with me, I don't have the GIMP here to illustrate). The aforementioned communal location bar is in the visual equivalent to a tab which extends down to surround the active pane, switching as necessary. As for the keybindings, I support the inclusion of any shortcuts that aren't already taken. Also, the use of TAB seems solid, since that should be the expected behaviour. Brian -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list