Re: Pure treeview

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:20, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> Hi!
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> Now that I've put most of my Folders into position, they don't
> seem to jump around anymore, I have to say I start to like spatial
> Nautilus. In fact, I'm considering moving away from Konqueror
> because Nautilus is focused, looks and feels better.
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> But the browser mode feels not right anymore. I think for a bit
> more consistency and better aesthetics the browser mode should
> be like old Mac OS Finder, treeview with folders _and_ files
> in one place.
> The user can work with / understand the hierarchy better than
> with per folder windows, but there would be no additional 
> abstraction. Having one view showing only folders, another on 
> showing folders and files is not very logical (if one thinks 
> otherwise it's only because of being used to it).
> I know Nautilus allows files to be shown in treeview, but that
> doesn't make sense with the additional view to the side.
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> A screenshot of the old Finder in it's list mode or whatever it
> was called:
> http://www.secretaboutbox.com/articles/fs_connected.png

Yes. This would be nice. We hope to get something like that eventually.

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