Re: [Nautilus-list] Constructive Criticism Revisted

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

This is forming into a really nice idea, can i suggest that this group of
drop point icons be the same as what you get in the little shortcut pane
in the newly design win2k-esque file open dialog (if that one ever gets
adopted)? 

On 28 Jan 2002, Ryan Muldoon wrote:

> I would tend to agree that "Places" is exactly what the sidebar seems to
> be for.  There already has been talk of doing a "simple" tree view, so
> users aren't exposed to the whole UNIX filesystem.  a nice sidebar that
> defaulted to the basics, like homedir, floppy, cdrom, (whatever is in
> your /etc/fstab, I guess), and had drag and drop support to add more
> drop points would be pretty useful.  The trouble with putting all of
> that stuff in the toolbar is that you will need huge (wide, at least)
> windows for nautilus, which isn't always that convenient....and will
> kill users on smaller screens.  

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