Re: [Nautilus-list] Constructive Criticism Revisted

[James Mitchell Allmond <gte203h prism gatech edu>]

So it seems that the only thing that will make us two happy is to do
some type of mix between my "places" icons and your sidebar tree view.
However, I think this would need to be cleaned up a bit. As I said
before, trees are in general messy as hell. I would like to see the
"Places" icons up top in the sidebar (they can be semi small), have a
border below them, and show the tree for which ever "place" icon is
selected. That should keep it from getting too messy. Otherwise you
loose all the "place" icons in the mix of the tree view contents. The
"Places" icons I'd like to see include: Home, floppy, zip, cdrom,
network neighborhood, etc... Only show the "places" that the user
actually has of course. 




> So then why not put it all in a sidebar tab?  
> 
> The real point is that such things should be easily
> > discoverable and easy to access. I just think it looks better to have it
> > done in a way similar to the way I've presented it. Plus is sets up a
> > bit of consistency between nautilus and evolution which will be gnome2's
> > most gnomish and widespread applications.
> > 
> Not really, because Nautilus all of the sudden has both a shortcut bar
> AND a sidebar.  Which seems like it is internally inconsistent.  The
> sidebars are actually pretty useful, and hopefully will get more useful
> as more of them are written.  
>