[Thunar-dev] Re:Interface Thoughts.

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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.


Yep. It's kinda odd.

-- b