this is something that i had always thought of.
Apart from the normal places/bookmarks on the side pane of the file manager,
it would be great to let leach folder have it's own set of bookmarks.

eg you are at ~/ebooks/math

how it looks with sidepane now:

================================== =
sidepane         | main window
---------------------------------- -
Home
Computer




how i think it would be more useful:






On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:48 AM, anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>  Nautilus(as File manager) should have pane, where it shows all selected
>>>> files. We should have way to save selection(we don't specify name - it
>>>> was created by Nautilus). Desktop can have the same feature(instead or
>>>> with described in previous paragraph) as file manager.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I never needed this, and i think it won't be usefull because it's very
>>> rare (in my opinion) to have to select and deselect some fils and save the
>>> selection, have you some use cases ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes. In example we can create virtual place called as the selection.
>> User can select many files in many folders, called it as to remove.
>> He can remove the files from places menu, but before he can look at
>> files in this selection(group).
>> Second way to use them is to manage files. We can use single Nautilus
>> Windows to copy/move files. We select files to move/copy in many
>> locations or single. We can now go to destination. We can move selection
>> from saved selection left pane.
>>
>>
> An example I want to :
> move ~/toto/doc1 to ~/titi/
> copy ~/tutu/doc2 to ~/toto/
> and remove ~/tata/doc3
>
> With Nautilus now if you have no bookmarks :
> go to ~/toto/
> right clic on doc1
> cut
> go to ~/titi
> right clic
> paste
>
> go to ~/tutu/
> right clic on doc2
> copy
> go to ~/toto
> right clic
> paste
>
> go to ~/tata
> right clic on doc3
> move to trash
>
> total : 15 operations maximum
> +1 if the panel don't show the bookmarks
> So *maximum is 16 operations*
> If the destination is in the bookmarks each operation can be done with 2
> operation ( go to the folder, drag n drop) so the *minimum is 6 operations
> *
> With your feature :
>
> go to ~/toto/
> drag n drop doc1
>
> go to ~/tutu/
> drag n drop doc2
>
> go to ~/tata
> drag n drop doc3
>
> go to ~/titi
> select doc1 in the panel
> choose the action (move)
> drag n drop doc1
>
> go to ~/toto
> select doc2 in the panel
> choose the action (copy)
> drag n drop doc2
>
> select doc3 in the panel
> choose the action (remove)
> total 16 operations, if the selection panel is hidden, it makes 17
> operations
> so the *maximum is 17 operations
> *if the panel is almways displayed, and that you use drag n drop to move
> your file to trash (cause i don't know why you want to move something into a
> place before moving it into the trash when you want to move it to the trash.
> So the *minimum is 14 operations.
>
> *After, for me it's not intuitive to place something into a panel when i
> want to copy it into another folder, but whe can discuuss of it. We have to
> think like the neophyt who don't want to understand how it works, so the
> thing have to be natural, and it's a hard problem :D. I don't say your
> feature would be more or less intuitive, but for the people who use nautilus
> every day, it could be a hard to change the customs. (but this is not
> because people have customs that those customs are good).
>
> For me this feature don't give benefices, now i hope you will give you
> point of view on the question and perhaps it could permit to do things with
> less operations. Correct me where i'm wrong.
>
> Bye
>
> Moissant Anthony
> *
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