[Thunar-dev] Re:Interface Thoughts.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>> Just found out about the project via the "xfce weekly update" and am
>>> interested in how it will pan out.  I went a browsing through the
>>> archive and found a thread dicussing the "NeXt" type file manager.  At
>>> work i use a mac and have fallen in love with the column view (NeXT
>>> like or so it appears anyway) in the finder. Eg clicking on a folder
>>> causes it contents to be dislayed to the right in a new column. It
>>> seems there was some discussion about this and i just thought i would
>>> add my vote as a end user for this type of file management.  It has
>>> provided far and away the easiest and cleanest way to browse the
>>> filesystem i have encountered and have been longing for a linux
>>> inplementation.
>>
>> The interesting thing is that is has the functionality of the gtk 
>> filechooser buttons built into the file window.
>>
>> The downside is that it's very different from everyting else out 
>> there. It would be nice if some good make a python mockup of this, 
>> just like the current ones by Benedikt.
> 
> I'll try to come up with something during the afternoon. As said 
> earlier, there's already FSViewer for Linux/Unix, which is unfortunately 
> very buggy.

http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-columns-view-try1.png

I'll commit source later to the prototype.

While this provides a very fast way to browse into deeply nested 
directories, its certainly too uncommon for the average Unix/Linux 
desktop user.

Benedikt