I've been cleaning up the history of the split-view branch, and basing it on the official Nautilus git repository. I also took care of the points that came up during this thread. I would now consider it feature-complete.
The code is available in the "split-view" branch at git://github.com/hb/nautilus.git The navigation window UI changes in brief: - View -> "Extra Pane" menu - Edit -> "{Copy,Move} to" menus, with submenus with other pane as targets - Go -> "Switch to other pane" menu item - Go -> "Go to the same location as other pane" menu item There's a screenshot on my blog-post at http://berndth.blogspot.com/2009/06/nautilus-split-view-update.html During split view, the active pane is visually distinguishable from the inactive pane by a thin border in the theme's SELECTED color. The inactive pane has greyed-out location bar buttons and a background in the theme's INSENSITIVE color. Note that both, the background and the location bar buttons are still clickable. A click makes that pane active, and in case of the buttons performs the respective action. Please try it out before hammering the HIG onto my forehead. It seems very natural and intuitive to me, while staying nicely responsive. I'd appreciate any comments / bug reports / success stories, also from spatial-mode users (just to make sure no regressions sneaked in, spatial-mode users shouldn't be affected by this change), before officially requesting a review. Holger -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list