sorry, that was sent before i completed
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
etc
--separator--
(Bookmarks)
Audio
Documents
Video, etc
---------------------------------- -

* how i think it would be more useful:

================================== =
sidepane         | main window
---------------------------------- -
Home
Computer
etc
--separator--
(Bookmarks-system)
Audio
Documents
Video, etc
--separator--
(Bookmarks-specific to this folder)
FolderX
FolderY
FolderZ, Etc
---------------------------------- -

the second set of book marks change depending on the folder that is open in
the main window.
so if i open another folder, this changes as:

================================== =
sidepane         | main window
---------------------------------- -
Home
Computer
etc
--separator--
(Bookmarks-system)
Audio
Documents
Video, etc
--separator--
(Bookmarks-specific to this folder)
Folder-A
Folder-B
Folder-C, Etc
---------------------------------- -


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Jasir Alavi <[email protected]> wrote:

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>>  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.
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>>>> 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 ?
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>>> 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.
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>> An example I want to :
>> move ~/toto/doc1 to ~/titi/
>> copy ~/tutu/doc2 to ~/toto/
>> and remove ~/tata/doc3
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>> With Nautilus now if you have no bookmarks :
>> go to ~/toto/
>> right clic on doc1
>> cut
>> go to ~/titi
>> right clic
>> paste
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>> go to ~/tutu/
>> right clic on doc2
>> copy
>> go to ~/toto
>> right clic
>> paste
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>> go to ~/tata
>> right clic on doc3
>> move to trash
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>> 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 :
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>> go to ~/toto/
>> drag n drop doc1
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>> go to ~/tutu/
>> drag n drop doc2
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>> go to ~/tata
>> drag n drop doc3
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>> go to ~/titi
>> select doc1 in the panel
>> choose the action (move)
>> drag n drop doc1
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>> go to ~/toto
>> select doc2 in the panel
>> choose the action (copy)
>> drag n drop doc2
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>> 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.
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>> *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).
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>> 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
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>> Moissant Anthony
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