Suggestion for Breezy - Linz

[Joao Inacio]

Nautilus still has room for adding features without adding clutter...
IMHO it's still a bit lacking.

Anyway, it's UI is simply... simple! so no point on messing with that.


On 5/11/05, Guido Heumann <listguido at web.de> wrote:
> John DeCarlo schrieb:
> > Currently when you go to browser mode, you see the tree structure on the
> > left hand pane.  I think Lindsay is just asking to see CD-ROM and Floppy
> > in there.  Right now there is just Home Folder and Filesystem.
> 
> One could answer "if it's not there, then your cdrom drive is empty",
> since CD's are usually automounted and then appear in the tree and
> places menu.
> Perhaps this is in a way user-friendly and simple and maybe has to do
> with the HIG (human interface guidelines). But I personally would also
> prefer to see my CD drive listed, and getting "no disk in drive" errors
> when clicking on it while empty. Must admit though that I'm a windows
> convert and used to explorer-style filebrowsing.
> 
> (BTW, what I really hate about windows explorer (at work) since I'm
> using Ubuntu at home is the bad mousewheel support there. You have to
> click in a window before you can scroll with the wheel! That's soo
> annoying...)
> 
> > [...]
> >
> > One enhancement I would like to see is the ability to limit the size of
> > columns.  In many folders, I have files with very long names, so when I
> > browse there, the file name column takes up all the space.  I would
> > prefer it not to autosize.
> >
> 
> Perhaps an interesting project regarding file browsing interfaces is
> "Thunar". People are working on a new file manager for xfce, and they
> start with focusing on a clean and pragmatic UI design. There might be
> good ideas on http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/
> 
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