On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:33:05 +0200 Carlos Soriano <csori...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Indeed, dual panel was removed due to its UX problems in favour of > having two windows side by side. No, that's a myth, it was removed because of some badmouthing from gnome designer side, sadly. > What use cases are you missing in a two windows side by side set up? The use case is "dual pane file browsing". That's something different than "display two random unconnected windows side-by-side", e.g. in that you get an inherent default target for your file operations like "move", "copy", "compare", ... You can perform these actions (which are the main use cases of a file manager) e.g. with a single hotkey. Even if the appearancy is not the main point, dual pane is also much better visually than two windows side-by-side (e.g. easy to get in and out of that mode (one button instead of 3 button combos), no need to have them full-screen, less visual clutter (either two identical sidebars, or none??!), tends to be easier to see which one is currently selected etc.) Holger -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list