Re: Let's remove the Nautilus News sidepanel
- From: Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>, Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>, John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>, Nautilus-List <nautilus-list lists eazel com>, Gnome Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Let's remove the Nautilus News sidepanel
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
On 28 Apr 2002, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 11:41, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> If we had an Outline view I don't know if it would still make sense ot
> have the Tree view. I guess it would still be useful as a side view to
> navigate while looking at things in the main view.
>
> It is useful for people who got used to windows, since one usually uses
> the sidebar tree as a drag target when moving files. On Nautilus I
> usually open new windows to do it. But I guess some people want that
> too, although the tree usually gets awfully tall and thus needs a lot of
> scrolling.
I think the tree may make more sense if it had multiple roots. The real
root, you homedir, the desktop, and maybe shares.
> I also wish the Tree view had a better name. Tree is such a nerdy term
> that focuses more on the implenentation that the actual UI and purpose
> of the feature. Can anyone thing of a better name? The best I can come
> up with is "System Outline" which is way too wordy.
>
> On windows it is "Folders" which makes sense and sounds like a good
> name.
Seems like a random new name for "Directories", which I'm not sure makes a
lot of sense.
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