Re: Suggestion: The option to open a folder in a New Tab instead of a New Window.

[Mark Thiele <markthiele gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Now, I realize that for some experienced users with loads of directories
> tabs might be somewhat useful (although I don't think it will be nearly
> as useful as in firefox). However, adding tabs would be a significant
> restructuring of the code (which assumes one view per window), and its
> not even clear how this would interact with things like spatial
> navigation or exactly how the user interaction model will work. So,
> adding this as an option is a large cost for a low gain for most users

So what you're actually saying is that "good enough" is the goal and 
that as soon as a user actually needs to use his/her computer for 
anything more complicated than checking emails, they should upgrade to a 
desktop environment that caters for their needs? That's disgusting.

Both gedit and gnome-terminal, the most basic user apps after the panel, 
both support tabs, so obviously it fits in with gnome's "Human" 
philosophy. Gedit uses the gtknotebook subclass for tabs. Nothing new or 
special in the code there. Not sure what gnome-terminal uses.

Kde users have tabbed browsing of files right from the word go, and 
amongst most linux users I know, kde is considered a better and easier 
to use system than gnome for this kind of reason (ok, I don't know many, 
but I'm the only gnome user I know face to face). When is Nautilus going 
to catch up with it's rivals and join in with obvious trends in end user 
preference?

Yours,

dov