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Written by letronje the 6 Mar 08 at 12:49.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
1)small tree browser in the left pane( like the one in windows explorer, its convenient for quickly browsing the hierarchy'). The tree like structure in the "detailed" view on the right pane is very close to what i am talking abt. but, it needs to be on the left side with smaller icons so that it can fit into a smaller left pane.
2) Tabbed browsing instead of opening multiple windows
3) responsiveness, nautilus needs to render much faster that it currently does. Since the file explorer is one of the most frequently used app, ppl get easy frustrated when it doesn't work as expected.
4) There should be an option to apply a view setting (icons,details,etc) system wide( for all folders in the system) , that is, not remembering view setting for each folder and using a global view setting.
5) Dragging an entity should make it transparent. If not done, this tends to cover up the entity on which you are dropping it on. If transparency is not achievable due to some limitation in X server, show only the outline while dragging.
6) The shorcuts in the left pane, when right clicked should have context menu similar to that of a normal folder.
Attachments
 Bug #83491 : Shortcut Ctrl-C not working in Nautilus treeview
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ddimaio wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 13:26
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I think it would be better to post the various points separately, people my not agree or disagree with all of them.
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Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 13:31
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1) Click on the 'view' menu .. make sure 'sidebar' is enabled. Now click on the title of the sidebar and select 'tree'. Hey, it's already there. Power user functionality hidden, because well, if you are a power-user you would be expected to find it.
2) Look at the bottom. Hey! A tab-bar!
3) Thats a bug report. And its being worked on (by using the gvfs). Also, to get the kind of performance you get in windows, disable thumbnails for large files.
4) There is a such an option. You can find it in gconf-editor. But since power-user-choices are not to be thrown into the faces or the simple folk, because it would confuse them, these things are hidden. Also the settings is remember per folder. So the system-wide default is about folders you haven't viewed yet.
5) Finally a real usuable suggestion!
6) They are shortcuts, off course they can't have the same context-menu. How else are you going to remove a shortcut? They are not files. If you put it on tree-mode (which you claim to prefer) the right-click menu does exactly what you expect it to do.
So, please re-evaluate your 5 ideas that are already implemented or just make no sense.
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facundocorradini wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:21
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I agree with #aRalf.Nieuwenhuijsen
But... Where's the damn tabbar????
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PCMan wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 14:35
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Please, try this one - PCManFM.
http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/
There is a screenshot on the homepage.
Features:
1. Lightening fast startup and high responsiveness. If desktop icon support or daemon mode is used, the file manager will show up "immediately" when you click on its icon.
2. Tabbed-browsing. PCManFM owns this feature since the first release in 2006. Dragging between different tabs is supported.
3. Desktop icon management. The latest version 0.3.9 experimental provides support for desktop icons and wallpaper management.
4. Extremely low memory usage.
5. Desktop independence. It works well with Gnome, but not confined to Gnome.
6. User-friendly interface quite similar to Nautlus and Thunar.
7. Standard compliant - follows freedesktop.org specs.
8. The system requirement is low. A computer with 266 MHz CPU can use it. On lowend machines like EeePC, the performance is quite good.
To see is to believe:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6910499829356532385&hl=en
This is a video demostrating PCManFM on EeePC.
Before Nautilus can get improved, this is the best existing alternative, if you need speed and tabs.
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v79 wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 15:56
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#5 - yes yes yes. Take me back to those innocent days with RISC OS 3.1, and all those little modules you installed to enable semi-transparent icon dragging. If a 12MHz Acorn ARM machine could manage it, then my dual-core Athlon should't have a problem.
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jjlorenzo wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 16:01
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Where's the damn tabbar????
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awalton wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 16:07
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"Where's the damn tabbar????"
In your dreams. Nautilus isn't that kind of FM. Use something else if you want tabs.
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infekt wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 21:00
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aRalf.Nieuwenhuijsen: Where is the tabbar?
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antistress wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 01:03
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related to idea #2637: Remix Nautilus drop down list (but not duplicate)
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Alaunus wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 07:40
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You should leave nautilus changes to the GNOME developers
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markba wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 12:15
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Attached the following bug report:
"Shortcut Ctrl-C not working in Nautilus treeview"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/83491
This is solving a (little) bit of issue #6, although it should be further extended to all context items in the right pane like you suggested.
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dsargeant wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 15:25
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Instead of transparency or outline while dragging and dropping, Nautilus could grab the top left corner of the item being dragged. This is how Thunar does it and it is very effective for eliminating obstruction while dragging.
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lukesandberg wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 19:48
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I think tabs are a bad idea and will just clutter the interface. If you want to view more than one folder at a time in a single window, the tree view is a much better way to do this. Tabs are not the always a great UI, sure it makes sense for web browsing where you will often leave pages open for reference, but the only time I have more than one nautilus window open is if I'm dragging files between them, and that make much more sense than doing it with tabs.
In Hardy (alpha 6) my icons become transparent while dragged already (though that might be Compiz related, I'm not sure).
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Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 01:12
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Where is the tab-bar?
- It is at the bottom of the screen.
If you lack space there because of other open applications, you can work on seperate desktops.
@lukesandberg
Tabs are not even good for webbrowsing. But because ordinary web-browsing sucks they are a good replacement. Imagine your browser having a crumble-bar like nautilus for each domain. That is how it should be working. Maybe i'll submit an idea for that.
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buggyman wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 23:01
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ya, also cut (ctrl-x) items should be transparent or include a clipboard like written in some other idea...
also: UNDO!
buggy
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msegmx wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 12:00
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in list view u can't select multiple files/folders like in win expl. using the mouse and without pressing ctrl. the other columns prevent that.
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msegmx wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 12:52
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there should also be an "undo ---" option in context menu. for example "undo copy", "undo delete", "undo ...".
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