Feature request: browsing filesystem in gnome "computer" menu

[Andrew Kerr]

> Because of spatial nautilus, browsing deep directory structures can fill
> the screen very fast. I know it can be turned off, and I know I can
> right-click and "browse" a folder as well, but...

Nope, spatial nautilus just needs more work. For a start, we need a
tree view. This is a cross between the tree sidebar and the current
list view - list view but with expandable nodes.

This will make dealing with deep hierarchies (like source trees) a lot
easier. You could even have one folder in tree view off to the side
instead of a sidebar. Combined with the Ctrl+L location entry (and
spring-loaded folders would be lovely to have - if we could), I'm not
sure if there are any major reasons for using the browser unless you
really can't handle more than one window and have a passion for back
buttons...

Dave Camp was keen to implement this for 2.8 at one stage:
http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/log/000365.html

There's a bug about having a more tree-like list view here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81610

and a similar column view here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96239

Take care,
Drew.