[Thunar-dev] * ala firefox

[Brian]

Joel Jansson wrote:

>Hello! 
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>Here is another suggestion from another pesky little end user! ;) ... 
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>I know that you have desided not to use a spatial filmanager and you want this to be a small and easy-using little thing and I dont know is someone aks this allready ... but what about adopting tabs from firefox? 
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>

Funny you should mention that...

>>> Glad to hear that. Ever since I started using firefox, I've thought 
>>> about a tabbed file manager. I'm sure there's some code from GAIM 
>>> that could be stolen. They have tabs in their instant message 
>>> windows that you can tear off into their own windows. Still not sure 
>>> if it's practical or even a good idea, especially since the goal 
>>> here is user friendly and simple. 
>>
>> and patented!!! supposedly they have an agreement with novell about 
>> it even, al sorts of dark talk about that about a year ago. (which is 
>> why I would actually encourage people to use it ;^)).
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> I think it's way too complex for a simple file manager.