<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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. <div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:15:33 -0700 > From: robert.park@canonical.com > To: mttbrnsmls@outlook.com > CC: clanlaw@googlemail.com; ubuntu-devel-discuss@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. </div> </div></body> </html>