Extra Pane in Nautilus

[Greg Williams]

Hey, thanks a lot for pointing out these factors. these are good points.

Ultimately I guess I'll have to learn how to use Nautilus without the Extra Pane. I hope they haven't gotten rid of Tabs in nautilus. Although I can't see the contents of two tabs simultaneously, at least I can open a new tab and preserve the old place while I go grab something from another folder.

The thing that I don't like about tiling windows is that it means having more than one window of the same app open :0 I find it so much easier to manage content with Tabs in one window than having to manage multiple windows. Even Windows-XP and Gnome-2x managed extra windows with Tabs so to speak. The Task-bar in Windows was populated with rectangular boxes (each representing a window). That rectangular box acted like a tab.

Thanks again for pointing out these factors in the decision to get rid of Extra Pane. Now I can see where they were coming from.

> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:15:33 -0700
> From: robert.park at canonical.com
> To: mttbrnsmls at outlook.com
> CC: clanlaw at googlemail.com; ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus
> 
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:12:49PM -0400, Greg Williams wrote:
> > I have no use for Nautilus if it doesn't support the Extra Pane. This is one of
> > the most used features of Nautilus by my friends and me. It's one of the "linux
> > things" that pulled me away from using Windows and Windows Explorer. I like
> > Gnome 3x but some of the decision those developers make are really poorly
> > thought out.
> 
> Now, I can't speak for the Gnome developers, but I did read a lot
> about this issue back when the controversy first started, and I
> believe it boils down to this:
> 
> * Both Gnome 3 and Unity make it very easy to tile windows such that
>   one takes up the left half of your screen, and the other takes up
>   the right half of the screen. This is essentially the same thing as
>   having an "extra pane", but it's "better" because your window
>   manager is better at managing windows than nautilus is. So all the
>   drag&dropping that you used to enjoy doing between panes, you can
>   still do between windows.
> 
> * Also, other parts of Nautilus have been improved to compensate for
>   the loss of the pane. For example, if you want to easily move files
>   into a parent folder, you can drag them directly to the breadcrumb
>   view along the top and they get moved to that folder. Or, if you
>   want to create a new subfolder for a group of files, you can select
>   them, and there's an option in the rightclick menu that will create
>   a new folder and move them into it, with a single click.
> 
> I'm not saying I necessarily agree, just that that is what I had read
> at the time, and those other features look nice to me. I personally
> don't miss the extra pane at all. As you said yourself, it was
> confusing to figure out which one had focus at any given time. Having
> independent windows side by side makes that much clearer.
 		 	   		  
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