Re: volumes mark 2

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:35, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> 
> 
> 
> >> > Places like home, computer and network are easily reached from menus
> >> > in the nautilus window and the panels. I'd also like to re-introduce
> >> > the favorites system as a way to quickly reach commonly used
> >> > places. Favorites is more important in a spatial system, since deep
> >> > navigation is more work.
> >> >  
> >> 
> >> From the UI point of view, where would the "favorites" be located ?
> > 
> > It'll just be a menu thing I think, not a location. In the panel menus
> > and in the nautilus window menus. 
> > 
> 
> Well favorites shouldn't be available from the spacial nautilus window for 
> the same reason bookmarks are not. In addition why not use a folder 
> interface for managing "favorites"? Nearly every bookmarks implementation 
> I've seen (the exception to some degree is epiphany) reimplements the file 
> manager in its bookmarks editor. 

The way i see favourites is as a shortcut to a place. If you have to
open a location just to get there the idea is sort of missed. Maybe the
"Go" menu is non-spatial. But I think we need some way to reach commonly
used locations when the desktop is covered or the place to reach is
somewhere where lots of navigation would be needed (say a shared project
folder). 

I think fast access to commonly used locations is very important if a
spatial filemanager is to be really useful in day-to-day work. MacOS had
its "drawers" on the sides of the screen, but i'm not sure we want to
copy that exactly.

> Beyond this I think it would be good to work with marco to develop a 
> gnome-wide desktop bookmark implmentation so that you can access all your 
> bookmarks (file, folder, web pages, a bookmark is a bookmark is a bookmark) 
> from one place using one implementation instead of creating yet another 
> interface.[1] 

Maybe so, but I want the favourites in the filemanager to be much more
limited than real bookmarks. Just locations (not files), and a simple
list (not hierarchical), to make it non-complicated and easy to find
your stuff in. As soon as you have to open up a window to find the
bookmark or type in something somewhere its really not good enough for
quick use in the file manager imho.

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