On Di, 24.02.2009 10:48, Alexander Larsson wrote: [about Dolphin] >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.
Yes, indeed. >However, I like how they show the active pane, they disable the >path-bar, plus make the background and frame grayed out on the disabled >pane. The background makes it very obvious which one is active. Yes, plus they draw a thin border line around the active window. Very clear and intuitive. I just don't know how this would affect accesibility themes that Calum was talking about. >Also, i see dolphin does splits-in-tabs, not tabs-in-split. I wonder >what is most useful. Dolphin is the first filemanager I have seen that does this. I find it confusing and counter-intuitive. For me, a tab should represent a folder view, not a collection of (two) such views. Dual-pane is a layer between a single window and two windows side-by-side, and not another "view" mode. That's also the way other filemanagers do it (Total Commander, Freecommander, even Krusader, just to name three). >> Yes. But it's the beauty of extensions that something like this doesn't >> have to go to the core program, and doesn't shift any user's >> Nautilus style that didn't explicitely ask for it. > >As a maintainer of a distro I don't quite see it the same way. There >will just be lots of pressure to install the extensions by default, just >like there is pressure to add the open terminal extension (its in fact >installed by default in RHEL). While I can understand your reasoning, I am not sure what conclusion to draw from your point of view. Is extensibility and plugin-support a bad thing just because somebody could implement an extension that your customers/users really like, who in turn could put social pressure on the distributor? Isn't, on the other hand, such a pressure a clear vote that the existence of the extension is very important? >I guess one way to make this less weird is to always have a "copy to" >submenu, similar to the dolphin one. I am not sure about which menu in Dolphin you're talking. I didn't see a "copy to" submenu. >It would have home, root, maybe >some bookmarks/mounts and then let you dive down into these as menus. >Then we could just add a "other pane" menu item in the split view case. >That would make it more obvious that this is a standard operation with a >different way of specifying the target. So we would have "Edit -> Copy to" and "Edit -> Move to" submenus with default targets. The "Edit -> Move to trash" menu item could move in there, too. That sounds very good to me. Holger -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list