Re: Patch: zoom slider in spatial windows

[Daniel Pörsch <danielpoe gmx de>]

Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt <at> myrealbox.com> writes:
> The Mac Finder has long included a function with the opposite effect: 
> the "zoom button" in the title bar resizes the window so that it's just 
> big enough to display all the folder contents if that's possible, or 
> maximizes the window otherwise. This aids spatial recognition because 
> it makes different folder windows more likely to have distinctive 
> shapes and sizes. (But the button doesn't make sense in the title bar, 
> because it's relevant for few applications other than the file 
> manager.)

ROX (rox.sourceforge.net) has this feature when you doubleclick on the
background (I think it can also be invoked by a menu item). This is very useful,
if you "suddenly" hit very full or very empty directories.

Cheers,
Daniel